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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

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America drops what is known as the Mother Of All Bombs

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on so-called Islamic State, in Afghanistan.

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Seen here in tests, it is the largest non-nuclear device

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the US has used in conflict, and targeted a network

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

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America drops what is known as the Mother Of All Bombs

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on so-called Islamic State, in Afghanistan.

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Seen here in tests, it is the largest non-nuclear device

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the US has used in conflict, and targeted a network

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Also this morning: Unions representing 500,000 teachers claim

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schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years,

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even though the Government says it is spending a record amount.

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Two bank holidays just two weeks apart means two million of us

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This morning, I'm taking a look at whether it is any cheaper

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Good morning from the Crucible in Sheffield. All the current stars

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will be coming into this famous theatre to have a party and look

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back on four decades, later on. I will be inside when they open up

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shortly. How Hull is becoming

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a city of art lovers. We will be live in the

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UK's City of Culture. Good morning. The extended weekend

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will be a little bit on the cool side, with the clouds they are, and

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some rain here as well. There will be a decent amount of dry and sunny

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weather to go with it. I will have your full Easter forecast in around

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about 15 minutes. First, our main story: The US

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military have dropped the biggest non-nuclear weapon ever used

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in combat, in Afghanistan. President Trump described

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the mission, to destroy a series of underground caves thought to have

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been used by so-called Islamic State, as a very

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successful mission. Our North America editor

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John Sopel has more. This is the GBU-43,

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also known as a MOAB, a Massive Ordnance Air Blast,

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or as it is more commonly known, The largest non-nuclear

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weapon ever deployed. The target - so-called

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Islamic State in Afghanistan. We targeted a system of tunnels

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and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely,

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making it easier for them to target US military advisers

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and Afghan forces in the area. It is turning out to be a busy time

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for the commander-in-chief. We are so proud of our military,

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and it was another successful event. The tunnels and caves that were used

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by the Taliban over 15 years ago This bomb was dropped

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on a complex tunnel network in Nangarhar Province,

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close to the Pakistan border, where a member of US special forces

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was killed last week. But the actions brought a furious

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tweet from Afghanistan's former It is not just the dropping

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of a massive bomb on Afghanistan. In just over a week,

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President Trump has ordered the missile strike on Syria,

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a naval battle group to head to the Korean Peninsula, and he has

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restated his commitment to NATO. Some of Donald Trump's

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supporters are asking, whatever happened

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to the isolationist, America-first President

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of the inauguration? Unions representing 500,000 teachers

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say schools in England are facing the worst real-term

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cuts for 20 years. The NUT and NASUWT will discuss

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what they say is a crisis in funding when they meet today

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at their Easter conferences. But the Government says ?40 billion

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is being spent on schools this year, Our education correspondent

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Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martin's School in Essex

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is a good school, but even here, it

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has become increasingly difficult to recruit staff,

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particularly in specialist subjects. At one stage, they had a science

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teacher vacancy for more But there are also shortages

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in maths and modern languages. I look at all the people that

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are teaching in those areas, and the number of people that

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are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people

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that are coming in that aren't actually a specialist in the subject

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area that they're teaching, and I think that really this

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is the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering

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for their conferences at a time There have been widespread protests

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from parents and schools who say without more money, class sizes

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will go up and teaching posts The Government points out ?40

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billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest

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cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasn't taken

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into account rising costs, like pay,

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pensions, and the running The funding pressure is also

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beginning to hit parents, something of a concern

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to the unions. Half of parents are saying

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they're making at least one financial contribution

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to the school's funds, in order to "enhance resources",

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whatever that means, And many parents are

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finding that even the cost of a school uniform is something

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which they can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet

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about Government plans to introduce Teachers argue money set aside

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for them would be better spent However, the Government says this

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new wave of grammars would benefit Foreign ministers from Syria

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and Iran are holding talks with their Russian

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counterpart in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian

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leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had

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been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack a Syrian

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government airfield. Nigeria says it is actively

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negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to free

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the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped

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three years ago today. Demonstrators will hold events later

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today in the capital, Abuja, and in Lagos,

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to mark the anniversary. Almost 200 of the girls

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are still being held in captivity. Our Nigeria correspondent

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Martin Patience reports. They were kidnapped as schoolgirls,

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but will now be young women. Three years ago today, the students

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preparing for final exams were abducted from this school. The

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Islamist extremist of Boko Haram oppose western education. They

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loaded the girls onto trucks, and then drove them into the darkness.

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The mass kidnapping shone a spotlight on the brutal Boko Haram

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insurgency, which has killed thousands and forced millions to

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flee their homes in north-east Nigeria. The abductions sparked

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international condemnation, and led to the campaign Bring Back Power

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Girls. And then, late last year, joyous scenes. -- Our Girls. More

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than 20 of the schoolgirls were freed, following negotiations. Now,

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Nigeria's president says talks are ongoing with a Boko Haram, and that

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he will bend over backwards to secure the release of all the

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remaining students. As security removes, slowly children are once

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again getting an education, but abductions are still taking place.

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For every Chibok schoolgirl, many more children have been kidnapped

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either militants. -- by the militants.

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The lawyer of a man who suffered a broken nose and lost two teeth

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when he was dragged off a plane in Chicago says it is likely

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he will take legal action against United Airlines.

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Several passengers filmed Dr David Dao being forced off

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the flight, bloodied and injured, by Chicago aviation police,

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after he had refused to leave the overbooked flight.

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At a press conference, Mr Dao's daughter said it has been

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What happened to my Dad should never happen to any human being,

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We were horrified, and shocked and sickened, to learn what had

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happened to him, and to see what had happened to him.

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The Labour Party says it would give the UK's financial regulator,

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the Financial Conduct Authority, new powers to stop banks shutting

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Labour says hundreds of such closures have

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The Conservatives said their support for small businesses,

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which includes start-up loans, had helped 40,000 firms.

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A clean-up operation is under way in New Zealand,

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after a powerful storm swept across the country.

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Cyclone Cook was expected to be the worst storm

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Hawke's Bay on the east coast was worst-hit,

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with hundreds of families forced from their homes,

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road closures, and downed powerlines.

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The accommodation booking service Airbnb is improving the security

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of its app and website, after a BBC investigation found

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people's homes had been burgled by criminals using stolen accounts.

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The scammers changed some personal details,

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Airbnb said it had already been working on the changes.

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It is expected to one of the busiest days on the roads today,

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with around 20 million car journeys expected over the Easter weekend.

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Millions more will be heading abroad, as they make the most of two

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bank holidays in the space of two weeks.

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Catriona Renton is at a busy road in East London this morning,

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I am going to say busy, but not that busy yet. Not that easy yet, and

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this is the A102, it is usually one of the busiest roads in London and

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it joins London to the network of motorways so now is obviously a good

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time to get away if you want to. There is barely a car on the roads

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here at the moment but it will get busier throughout the day. 20

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million people, as you say, 20 million car journey is expected over

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this weekend, and to give you an idea of what that means today, that

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will be around 15% more cars on the road than normal. Now, the company

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that supplies this data say that you can expect on the major motorways,

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at the pinch points, that your journey could take twice as long as

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normal. Those pinch points between 10am and 2pm, so they suggest

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avoiding those if you can. Whereas at off to? 6.6 million people are

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going to have a night away somewhere in the UK. But not everyone is going

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to have a staycation. Today will be one of the busiest days of the

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airports, it was around 2 million people will be heading overseas.

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Spain is still the favourite destination. It is a different

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picture on the railways. Network Rail appreciate there are fewer

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passengers usually use the trains on bank holidays so this is an

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opportunity for them to get some work done. There will be 200

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engineering project affecting trains from London, Manchester, laugh,

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Manchester and Glasgow. You should check your roots before you go --

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Bath. Thank you very much indeed for explaining all of that. Of course

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the trains are quieter at the weekend, but slower.

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Nasa says one of Saturn's moons, known as Enceladus, may now be

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the best place to look for life beyond earth.

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Samples of the waters erupting from the moon's surface suggest it

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has all the conditions needed for life.

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The discovery was made through Nasa's Cassini probe,

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which has been exploring Saturn since 2004.

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It always gets people excited, of course, that tantalising prospect.

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We will be discussing later in the programme how close we are, to that.

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It is a possibility. We are not sure about it yet, are we? We are a

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little bit lonely this morning. No Mike this morning, he is at the

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Crucible ahead of the start of the world Snooker Championships. I am

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waiting my turn on the table. I think for me it would be a long

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time, because my opponents will dominate. This is it, the iconic

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arena of the Crucible. 40 years of Snooker World Championship mammaries

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staged here. They are still getting the table is ready for this year's

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Championships, which start tomorrow. What strikes me is how intimate this

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arena is. To celebrate four decades, they are getting a lot of the former

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champions and current stars to come down the green carpet with some

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fans, they will relive some of the best moments of the last 40 years.

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You can watch it on the red button on BBC iPlayer. They arrive at 5pm

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and the show starts at 6pm this evening.

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And the draw has been made for the first round of

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the World Snooker Championship, which starts tomorrow

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Defending champion Mark Selby will face qualifier Fergal O'Brien,

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and five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will play another

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Elsewhere in sport, it was a frustrating night

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for Manchester United, as they dominated the first leg

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of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with Anderlecht, but could only draw.

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Jose Mourinho's side went ahead before the break,

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through Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but couldn't hold onto the lead.

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Great Britain have made it two medals in two days at the cycling

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Track World Championships, in Hong Kong.

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Chris Latham won a bronze in the men's scratch race,

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It is his first international medal as a senior rider.

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Warrington are now unbeaten in three matches, as they try to recover

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from their terrible start to the season in Super League.

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So, yes, being inside the Crucible, how big are the tables, when you are

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used to playing pool in the pub, or maybe snooker at home with the kids

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on the small tables, and also how intimate it is. I have a couple of

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volunteers. If I am playing a shot, they are breathing down my neck. So

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close to the action. It could be very offputting. All of those eyes

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on you. And then of course the TV audience as well. Plenty more from

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you through the morning including Mark Selby at 8:30am. Are those

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people OK, I am worried about them? They are trying to stare at me, so

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that I can feel like it is playing a point at the World Championship.

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Give me a hard stare. Very good, thank you. What you couldn't see at

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home was Matt with the weather this morning watching the whole thing in

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fascination. I could see you thinking, what on earth? I was

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worried for him with those two behind. The Easter weekend is up on

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us, it is an extended break for many. The weekend forecast is mixed.

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It is not horrendous by any means. It will be on the cool side with the

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cloud but when the sun comes out you will feel the benefit of the

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sunshine overhead. Some gardeners will be happy with this, a little

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bit of rain at times. Where is the rain? Falling in the form of showers

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in southern Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England and the

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Midlands, south of that a chilly start with sunny spells breaking

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through the cloud. Bright conditions in Scotland and a breeze blowing

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with one or two showers. That will continue into the afternoon.

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Probably most bright in eastern Scotland if you are heading out.

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Northern Ireland is bright after a wet spell early in the afternoon.

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The wet weather as it clears means north-west England, north and west

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Wales, showers turned to persistent rain in the afternoon. It won't be

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pleasant with the breeze as well. Away from that much of central and

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southern England and East Anglia, some of the most dry weather with

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breaks in the cloud. Temperatures may be one degree above yesterday.

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The wet weather for northern England and Wales were pushed southwards,

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giving the garden is a welcome step rather than drink overnight. That

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will clear through. With skies clearing, showers in the north, it

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will be cold for Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England, a touch

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of frost and maybe even a touch of ice in Scotland on quite a windy day

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with sunshine and showers. Saturday is only by and large. Showers mainly

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for Scotland. One or two elsewhere. Most will be lucky enough to avoid

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them. Dry with sunny spells throughout. Tomorrow you will notice

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it will feel cold in the breeze and in the cloudy moments. If you are

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thinking of heading to the Scottish hills tomorrow, make note, it may

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feel like a spring in the valleys, winter on the peaks with gale force

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winds, so the windchill and a little snow around. Please, bear that in

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mind. The wind will ease into Sunday but low pressure will work in on

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Sunday. After a bright day on Saturday, largely cloudy on Easter

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day. Outbreaks of rain for Northern Ireland, the Midlands, East Anglia

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moving east. Fairly erratic with some dry weather around and top and

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tail the best of the dry, brightest and sunny weather and back to

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something sunny on Monday with light wind, one or two showers here or

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there. Hopefully you will manage to avoid them and if you do in the

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sunshine with light wind it will feel a touch more warm. Thank you.

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You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

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The main stories this morning: The US military unleashes

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the largest non-nuclear bomb ever to be used in conflict,

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targeting so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan.

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Schools in England are facing the worst real term cuts for 20

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years, according to unions representing half a million

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The government says it is spending a record amount on education.

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Sean is here to talk about the Good Friday papers. And we will start

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with the front pages. Yes, the front of the Sun, this is our lead story,

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you can see they are calling it, this is how it is known in the US

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military, the mother of all bombs, the world's biggest non- nuclear

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bomb so far used in combat. Assessments made as to the impact as

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it was dropped in Afghanistan by the US military. Lots of papers leading

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on that story. Some of them cannot agree. The front of the Times have

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their own story on what they say is a secret plan to destroy cancer

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medicine. What I want to show you is a picture of the Prime Minister,

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Theresa May, who you can see yesterday performing a duty on

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behalf of the Queen graduating cadets at the Royal Academy in

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Sandhurst. Apparently they played Star Wars music and made everybody

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giggle. The front of the Mirror is dominated by images of the bomb,

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Trump drops the mother of all bombs, and the Express talking about cost

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of holidays. Set to fall 20% according to them. Talk about that

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this morning, we will look at a cost abroad, you probably have pay for

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your flights and accommodation. When you get there, it is cheaper than it

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was a year ago when you get to Spain, Portugal, Croatia. Whether or

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not you take the pound into account, what has happened is that these

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areas have been so competitive now for the tourists to go there that

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the cost can be a lot cheaper than they have been for a while. Really?

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Last it was really expensive. Once you take flights and accommodation

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into account, that can start to bump up the price. And if anyone has a

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nice picture to send us off where they are this weekend, because...

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Somewhere sunny. Somewhere little sunnier than in here. So if you are

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going somewhere, sent in a picture. You can get a lot from a picture.

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You can judge how much people are spending. And we talk about a fiver,

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what about this one, the indestructible fivers, police

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thought they were fake but the hologram had rubbed off. So, where

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it was before, they found some fivers without it. They thought,

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blimey, have people been forging them already? Someone has put effort

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into trying to get rid of the hologram. Goodness me. The front of

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the Daily Telegraph, oh, you have the inside page, there is an

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interesting photograph I think you might want to see today. Can we see

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this? The new lineup for The Great British Bake Off. We knew the names.

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That is the image, people can look at it and think, I can see that, or

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think what they want, on the inside of quite a view of the papers. They

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all have their little puns. The Sun has Bake to the future. And what do

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you think of the colours? I like the yellow on the right. They are

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holding a cake. There is a really clever, subtle thing going on, there

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is a strawberry motif a look at Noel Fielding's jumper. It is warm, and

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friendly. I like it. Thank you. See you later on.

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It's been almost a year since so-called legal highs

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were banned but recent news coverage of people openly using the synthetic

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drug Spice in public, means it's under the spotlight

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Now paramedics say the unpredictable effects of the substances on users

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is making their job harder and putting them at risk of assault.

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Dan Whitworth has more on this story.

:23:11.:23:12.

A warning, his report contains images of the effects

:23:13.:23:14.

In a park in Leeds on a sunny weekday lunchtime two friends are

:23:15.:23:30.

about to take Spice. You blackout Ann Conlon level what you have done.

:23:31.:23:35.

Spice was banned by the government nearly a year ago along with other

:23:36.:23:40.

so-called highs, but that doesn't bother Derek. Since the ban came in

:23:41.:23:45.

it is easier to get hold of and it is cheaper as well. We watch as in a

:23:46.:23:49.

couple of minutes Adam and Derek descent into what for some users has

:23:50.:23:53.

been described as a zombielike state. People who use Spice often in

:23:54.:23:57.

broad daylight sometimes in city parks just like this one have told

:23:58.:24:01.

us despite the ban is still readily available and very cheap. And one

:24:02.:24:06.

user has even told us it is more difficult to try to come off than

:24:07.:24:12.

heroin. It is a familiar problem for charities like Lighthouse. Some

:24:13.:24:15.

people here have struggled to stop using Spice. I was a heroin user 17

:24:16.:24:22.

years ago. I have been clean for 17 years. I have been smoking Spice for

:24:23.:24:26.

nine years and it is stronger. Three years ago that is in my life started

:24:27.:24:32.

with Spice. It is not good. I can't eat. I have lost a lot of weight. It

:24:33.:24:38.

has ruined my life. Other charities said last year's ban hasn't curbed

:24:39.:24:43.

use. It has gone underground if you like. We consistently provide a safe

:24:44.:24:47.

service here. Unfortunately, if you have someone who has had some Spice

:24:48.:24:54.

and they are volatile, that can mean danger for us and for the residents.

:24:55.:25:00.

Police in Manchester say they dealt with around 60 incidents involving

:25:01.:25:05.

the drug last weekend alone. While the College of paramedics which

:25:06.:25:09.

represents 11,000 emergency workers across the UK says the use of

:25:10.:25:12.

synthetic drugs is making treating people even harder. Spitting,

:25:13.:25:18.

biting, punching, kicking, those things are what paramedics have to

:25:19.:25:22.

put up with. It is important for people to realise that this

:25:23.:25:26.

substance, whatever it is you are taking, it could kill you.

:25:27.:25:30.

Unfortunately that is what we are seeing, kids are dying. The

:25:31.:25:33.

government says it will publish a drug strategy shortly and that

:25:34.:25:37.

stopping the use of synthetic drugs like Spice and it says anyone caught

:25:38.:25:41.

using these kind of drugs already face up to five years in prison.

:25:42.:25:48.

Later in the programme we will speak with a

:25:49.:25:52.

former police officer on how to deal with this problem.

:25:53.:25:54.

Still to come on Breakfast: How Hull is bringing out the hidden art lover

:25:55.:25:58.

We'll be live in the Uk's City of Culture.

:25:59.:29:25.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:29:26.:29:39.

We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:29:40.:29:45.

But also on Breakfast this morning: As 2 million of us prepare to head

:29:46.:29:49.

overseas this Easter weekend, we will be finding out how much it

:29:50.:29:52.

will cost you when you get there - less than you may think.

:29:53.:29:56.

How would your boss feel if you brought your pet into work?

:29:57.:29:59.

We will be hearing why more and more companies are allowing dogs

:30:00.:30:02.

And forget Martians - the search for alien life

:30:03.:30:06.

Scientists will tell us why one of the ringed planet's moons

:30:07.:30:10.

But now, a summary of this morning's main news:

:30:11.:30:16.

It is being reported 36 members of so-called Islamic state

:30:17.:30:19.

were killed after the United States dropped what was described

:30:20.:30:21.

as the 'Mother Of All Bombs', in Afghanistan.

:30:22.:30:23.

The weapon is the largest non-nuclear bomb to have ever been

:30:24.:30:26.

The target was a network of underground tunnels.

:30:27.:30:29.

The attack has been condemned by the former Afghan president Hamid

:30:30.:30:32.

Unions representing 500,000 teachers say schools in England are facing

:30:33.:30:37.

the worst real-term cuts for 20 years.

:30:38.:30:39.

The NUT and NASUWT will discuss what they say is a crisis in funding

:30:40.:30:43.

when they meet today at their Easter conferences.

:30:44.:30:45.

But the Government says ?40 billion is being spent on schools this year,

:30:46.:30:49.

Unions say schools' staff shortages are increasing,

:30:50.:30:52.

and there is a reduction in vocational subjects.

:30:53.:31:06.

I think funding is going to be the theme that dominates the

:31:07.:31:13.

conversations, because around the country class sizes are going up, we

:31:14.:31:17.

are seeing arts, dance, drama, music being cut, education being cut back.

:31:18.:31:24.

We are seeing schools that are being sent letters to parents to ask them

:31:25.:31:28.

for money, to try and make up for the gap the government is causing in

:31:29.:31:30.

school budgets. Foreign ministers from Syria

:31:31.:31:39.

and Iran are holding talks with their Russian

:31:40.:31:42.

counterpart in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian

:31:43.:31:44.

leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had

:31:45.:31:47.

been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack a Syrian

:31:48.:31:51.

government airfield. Nigeria says it is actively

:31:52.:31:53.

negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to free

:31:54.:31:56.

the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped

:31:57.:31:58.

three years ago today. More than 270 students were seized

:31:59.:32:00.

from their dormitories, and almost 200 of the girls

:32:01.:32:03.

are still being held in captivity. Demonstrators will hold events later

:32:04.:32:06.

today in the capital, Abuja, and in Lagos,

:32:07.:32:08.

to mark the anniversary. A future Labour government says it

:32:09.:32:10.

would bring in a law preventing More than 1,000 local

:32:11.:32:14.

branches closed in the UK Labour says lending to small

:32:15.:32:17.

businesses decreases in areas where banks close,

:32:18.:32:21.

but the Conservatives said their support for small

:32:22.:32:23.

businesses, including start-up A clean-up operation

:32:24.:32:25.

is under way in New Zealand, after a powerful storm

:32:26.:32:49.

swept across the country. Cyclone Cook was expected

:32:50.:32:51.

to be the worst storm Hawke's Bay on the east

:32:52.:32:54.

coast was worst-hit, with hundreds of families

:32:55.:32:57.

forced from their homes, road closures,

:32:58.:33:00.

and downed powerlines. It is one of the busiest travel

:33:01.:33:01.

weekends of the year, Around 20 million car journeys

:33:02.:33:04.

will be made on the UK's roads by Monday, with trips on major

:33:05.:33:09.

routes expected to take up The M25, M6 and M5 are expected

:33:10.:33:12.

to be worst affected. Up to two million are expected

:33:13.:33:16.

to fly away from the gridlock for a trip overseas, with Spain

:33:17.:33:19.

being the top destination. I wonder if it is too late just to

:33:20.:33:31.

book a flight and go? You can do that any time. Where are you going

:33:32.:33:35.

to go? Spain, obviously. It was an egg-cellent day

:33:36.:33:36.

for animals at a zoo in Florida. Not to miss out on the holiday fun,

:33:37.:33:40.

keepers organised an Easter egg Rhinos, zebras and elephants feasted

:33:41.:33:43.

on a special lunch made up of grass, The rhinos seemed a bit fooled

:33:44.:33:51.

by the decorated fruit, but after plenty of sniffing

:33:52.:33:55.

and licking, they seemed I am not surprised they are

:33:56.:34:13.

confused. Why is the watermelon blue, they are thinking?

:34:14.:34:16.

To Mike now, who is at the Crucible, in Sheffield, ahead of the start

:34:17.:34:19.

Good morning to you. Good morning. I need a name. What do you think?

:34:20.:34:34.

Pocket Rocket or shall? I am deep inside the Crucible, the dressing

:34:35.:34:38.

rooms are just there, and this is the Walker players have been doing

:34:39.:34:42.

for 40 years at this famous theatre -- Pocket Rocket Bushell. It is not

:34:43.:34:46.

as famous as the walk at Wimbledon, but the cameraman is doing well. It

:34:47.:34:50.

is a tight squeeze because it is a walking theatre. They normally walk

:34:51.:34:53.

out with their cues, the commentary box that, in the big moment where

:34:54.:34:57.

you take a deep left and walk down the red carpet to the applause of

:34:58.:35:04.

900 needy people in here. And as I say, they have in doing this for 40

:35:05.:35:07.

years and they are commemorating that because a lot of champions and

:35:08.:35:11.

former stars will do this walk together with the fans to look back

:35:12.:35:17.

on four decades. Down to the table, and the trophy itself, which dates

:35:18.:35:21.

back to 1927. So 90 years of champions on that. Of course,

:35:22.:35:23.

defending champion Mark Selby. Elsewhere in sport,

:35:24.:35:25.

it was a frustrating night for Manchester United,

:35:26.:35:27.

as they dominated the first leg of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with

:35:28.:35:30.

Anderlecht, but could only draw. Jose Mourinho's side went

:35:31.:35:33.

ahead before the break, thanks to this goal

:35:34.:35:35.

from Henrikh Mkhitaryan. But they missed some good chances

:35:36.:35:37.

to extend their lead, and five minutes from time,

:35:38.:35:40.

Leander Dendoncker grabbed The second leg is at

:35:41.:35:42.

Old Trafford next week. If you arrive into a situation where

:35:43.:35:58.

mathematically it is not possible, top four, then easy decision. Rest

:35:59.:36:05.

them, and go with them in Europa League if you are still in

:36:06.:36:09.

competition. But at this moment we are in a position where we have two

:36:10.:36:14.

matches in hand. If we win both matches we are direct into the top

:36:15.:36:18.

four. We have to fight for every game.

:36:19.:36:19.

The six-man shortlist for PFA player of the year is out,

:36:20.:36:21.

with Chelsea's N'Golo Kante the favourite.

:36:22.:36:23.

He helped Leicester lift the Premier League trophy last

:36:24.:36:26.

season, and looks on course to do the same with Chelsea this year,

:36:27.:36:29.

He scored for them in the quarter-finals.

:36:30.:36:33.

Also in contention are Eden Hazard, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Harry Kane,

:36:34.:36:36.

After Elinor Barker won silver in the women's race on Wednesday,

:36:37.:36:45.

Chris Latham won bronze in the men's scratch race at the cycling

:36:46.:36:49.

Track World Championships, in Hong Kong.

:36:50.:36:50.

It is his first international medal as a senior rider,

:36:51.:36:53.

In Super League, Warrington are now unbeaten in three matches,

:36:54.:37:03.

as they try to recover from their terrible start

:37:04.:37:05.

They ran in three tries against bottom club Widnes,

:37:06.:37:09.

the second from Jack Hughes, as they won 19-10.

:37:10.:37:19.

The draw has now been made for the first round in the last name on

:37:20.:37:24.

here, defending champion Mark Selby has been drawn against Fergal

:37:25.:37:29.

O'Brien, who was involved in the longest ever frame on Wednesday. Two

:37:30.:37:33.

hours in three minutes to make it through to the main draw. In the

:37:34.:37:37.

past on this trophy we have winners from England, Scotland, Wales,

:37:38.:37:41.

Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and Australia but

:37:42.:37:44.

not as yet the Chinese name on there. They are getting close. Ding

:37:45.:37:49.

Junhui was the runner-up a year ago and it has been claimed that China

:37:50.:37:52.

will soon be the big superpower Snooker, dominating the titles.

:37:53.:37:56.

In a nation of over 1.3 billion people, one man is mobbed wherever

:37:57.:38:12.

he goes. Ding Junhui is treated like a movie or pop star. He is one of

:38:13.:38:16.

the most recognised faces across the whole of Asia, because this is the

:38:17.:38:20.

man who sparked a Chinese snooker revolution. To escape such constant

:38:21.:38:26.

attention, he moved to Sheffield, home of the World Championship,

:38:27.:38:30.

where he can lead a relatively normal life, unrecognised, well,

:38:31.:38:35.

most of the time. Good luck. Thank you. I met him this week for a frame

:38:36.:38:40.

at the city's Star Academy where his private practice room is a world

:38:41.:38:43.

away from all the attention. The 5 million followers on social media

:38:44.:38:47.

and the 210 million who watched his run to the final last year on

:38:48.:38:54.

Chinese state TV. The sound is wonderful, isn't it? You like that

:38:55.:38:59.

sound. I am proud. The little kids come and ask me how to be like you,

:39:00.:39:03.

and I am very pleased to answer the questions. So yes, I know it is how

:39:04.:39:12.

boring when you practise. It is very lonely. He is certainly not learn

:39:13.:39:17.

any more in Sheffield. Along with fellow star Marco Fu, the set the

:39:18.:39:23.

trend. Thanks to the likes of Ding and Marco Fu there is now a steady

:39:24.:39:29.

stream of players coming to dedicate themselves to training at these

:39:30.:39:32.

academies specially for Chinese players. Also good Chinese

:39:33.:39:40.

community, lots of Chinese restaurants, they love it. It has

:39:41.:39:44.

become a mecca for Chinese snooker players. They all want to come here

:39:45.:39:48.

and play. It feels like a second home here. It is easy to see what

:39:49.:39:53.

China is the new foreskin is liquor. Massive investment in facilities

:39:54.:39:57.

back home, and 70 million people now playing cue sports every week. In

:39:58.:40:02.

five years I think Chinese players will take over, as the standards are

:40:03.:40:07.

very high at the moment, but they can only improve from now on. Ding

:40:08.:40:13.

's success is rubbing off on so many. Hit it in the middle? Yes!

:40:14.:40:21.

Great tutor. He has already won the UK championship and the Masters, but

:40:22.:40:24.

ever since he started playing pool in China, aged eight, the world

:40:25.:40:30.

title has been his burning ambition. On TV I see Steve Davis, they are

:40:31.:40:37.

all legends in snooker. I think I want to win these titles when I grow

:40:38.:40:40.

up. And it seems only a matter of time

:40:41.:40:51.

before he is world champion. He is one of those Chinese rising stars.

:40:52.:40:54.

And if you want the documentary about Ding Junhui, it is now

:40:55.:40:57.

on the BBC iPlayer, and it is called Enter the Dragon: China's Snooker

:40:58.:41:01.

Thank you very much. You look quite the part sitting there. You really

:41:02.:41:10.

do look like a Snooker pro yourself. We will talk to you later. Thank you

:41:11.:41:12.

very much. It has being described

:41:13.:41:13.

as the 'Mother Of All Bombs'. The largest non-nuclear weapon ever

:41:14.:41:16.

used in combat by the US has been dropped on a network of underground

:41:17.:41:19.

tunnels in Afghanistan. It is thought they were

:41:20.:41:22.

being used by so-called The weapon was first tested in 2003,

:41:23.:41:24.

but until yesterday, Michael Williams is the director

:41:25.:41:28.

of international relations at New York University,

:41:29.:41:36.

and joins us now. Good morning to you. I am actually

:41:37.:41:48.

going to ask you that is my first question. Why this on, and why now?

:41:49.:41:56.

Well, it seems to have been dictated by military necessity. President

:41:57.:41:59.

Trump said at a press conference not too long ago that it basically

:42:00.:42:03.

enables the military to do what it needs to do, is very hands off

:42:04.:42:06.

compared with President Obama and we know from Central command that this

:42:07.:42:10.

area was being targeted by Afghan forces. The Afghan National Army

:42:11.:42:14.

ground forces were unable to take this area from the Isis combat and

:42:15.:42:19.

who were in the region, so that called the US military support, and

:42:20.:42:23.

the US military doesn't have many combat and ground troops but they do

:42:24.:42:26.

have a power and this particular weapon with the blast radius and the

:42:27.:42:29.

power it brings was designed specifically to take out the shallow

:42:30.:42:33.

tunnels and shallow bunker structures. It is not a deep bunker

:42:34.:42:38.

destroying weapon, but it is the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in

:42:39.:42:42.

the arsenal. So it seems to have been dictated purely by an

:42:43.:42:46.

necessity, from what we know. And the US has not confirmed much detail

:42:47.:42:50.

of the strike, not a huge amount of detail, but a local official has

:42:51.:42:55.

confirmed to the BBC that many IS militants were killed, allegedly

:42:56.:42:58.

including the brother of a senior leader. We have also been told there

:42:59.:43:03.

were no civilian casualties. Well, it is good there were no civilian

:43:04.:43:06.

casualties. The US military generally tries to avoid that, it is

:43:07.:43:11.

under the protocol. The last administration was very intent on

:43:12.:43:14.

being quite involved in trying to avoid as much collateral damage as

:43:15.:43:19.

possible. The President now seems to be much more inclined to let the

:43:20.:43:23.

military do they need to do. If you look at... They say about three

:43:24.:43:27.

dozen combat atoms were killed in this attack, quite expensive given

:43:28.:43:34.

the weapon at hand --, since. It is not going to fix the situation on

:43:35.:43:38.

the ground, and Isis is a symptom of the problems in the wider region of

:43:39.:43:42.

the Middle East as well. So it may set back military objectives of Isis

:43:43.:43:47.

are ultimately it is only one part of a much larger puzzle. Talking

:43:48.:43:51.

about President Trump for a moment, this is in complete contrast to his

:43:52.:43:56.

predator so, isn't it? Because many military chiefs have expressed

:43:57.:43:59.

frustration at the end of President Obama's term, and as you say, at

:44:00.:44:03.

this point it seems that Trump has taken advice from military leaders

:44:04.:44:07.

and in a sense handed much more control over to them. Yes, well, the

:44:08.:44:11.

new administration has several other active or prior military combat and

:44:12.:44:22.

is, in the ranks. -- combatants. General McMaster, General Mattis, so

:44:23.:44:29.

they certainly favour that sort of advice. And he is much more hands

:44:30.:44:34.

off and definitely is much more in favour of large acts, as we know, to

:44:35.:44:41.

demonstrate US military power. And this is a departure. Maybe part of

:44:42.:44:45.

it is signalling to other parts of the world where there may be issues,

:44:46.:44:49.

but at the same time it is a relatively erratic policy, that

:44:50.:44:52.

doesn't seem to have a larger strategy behind the actions, which

:44:53.:44:56.

is to strike in Syria, or the moving of US naval assets closer to the

:44:57.:44:58.

Korean peninsula. Here's Matt with a look

:44:59.:45:01.

at this morning's weather. It is Good Friday, bank holiday

:45:02.:45:14.

weekend. How is it looking? Not bad at all. Quite mixed, it has to be

:45:15.:45:22.

said. Started on a good note. Glorious in Aberdeenshire. Sunshine

:45:23.:45:25.

top and tail at the moment. For most it will be a cloudy day. As you can

:45:26.:45:31.

see, cloud around, sunshine breaking through. South-east Wales and

:45:32.:45:37.

northern Scotland. In between, producing rain, northern England and

:45:38.:45:42.

Wales pushing east. There is dry weather in between. A damp spell for

:45:43.:45:47.

Northern Ireland into the start of the afternoon. If we look at four

:45:48.:45:52.

o'clock, sunny spells breaking through and sunny spells through the

:45:53.:45:57.

day for northern Scotland with showers pushing in on a cool breeze.

:45:58.:46:02.

Cloudy in northern England. The west of the Pennines is persistent and

:46:03.:46:06.

heavy into the afternoon, as it will in north and west Wales. The better

:46:07.:46:12.

spell for you first thing. Southeast Wales, southern England, East

:46:13.:46:16.

Anglia, it should be dry all day long with some sunny breaks. It

:46:17.:46:19.

might even feel warmer than yesterday. The rain pushed

:46:20.:46:24.

southwards and bring some of the gardens more of a sip than a drink

:46:25.:46:29.

before the weather front clears. With the clear skies, cold air

:46:30.:46:34.

pushing in, from the Midlands northwards, the chance of a touch of

:46:35.:46:37.

frost, maybe even ice around with showers in northern Scotland. Quite

:46:38.:46:42.

a cold day to come on Saturday. A cool breeze across the board. Sunny

:46:43.:46:46.

conditions across the country on Saturday. Sunny on Saturday with one

:46:47.:46:52.

or two showers. Many will have a predominantly dry day. Not

:46:53.:46:58.

especially warm in the sunshine. Temperatures 9- 14 degrees. Cold on

:46:59.:47:02.

the mountains of Scotland. Here if you are planning to go to the hills,

:47:03.:47:06.

not a great day with gale force winds, subzero temperatures, leading

:47:07.:47:09.

to a severe windchill and some snow showers around as well. The wind

:47:10.:47:15.

will ease and the cold air cut off into Sunday. Sunday we are back in

:47:16.:47:19.

cloudy weather as weather front push in. Northern Scotland and the south

:47:20.:47:24.

of England, temperatures could get into the teens. In between, lots of

:47:25.:47:29.

cloud and occasional rain but still some dry mornings around. Back to

:47:30.:47:34.

some sunny weather into Easter Monday one or two showers and with

:47:35.:47:39.

winds on Easter Monday, get yourself in the sunshine, especially in the

:47:40.:47:42.

west - it should feel a little warmer, although it is still cold on

:47:43.:47:46.

the eastern coast. There is something for everyone this weekend.

:47:47.:47:50.

Thank you. There is a holiday theme emerging, obviously, because of the

:47:51.:47:56.

day and we can. If you are watching this you are thinking about going

:47:57.:48:03.

away. You might already be a way. It is possible. Going abroad Easter

:48:04.:48:10.

weekend seems our luxury to me. Lots of people are doing it, it seems.

:48:11.:48:17.

Today is the busiest day of travel. About two million of us

:48:18.:48:21.

are choosing to head overseas. According to ABTA -

:48:22.:48:24.

that's the Association of British Travel Agents -

:48:25.:48:25.

two million British holidaymakers Spain is the UK's favourite foreign

:48:26.:48:28.

holiday destination for the weekend. You'll have already forked

:48:29.:48:32.

out for your flights but research from the Post Office

:48:33.:48:35.

out today says that once you actually get to one

:48:36.:48:38.

of the most popular spots, prices for basics,

:48:39.:48:40.

so like sunscreen, beer and meals, Louise Hodges is a travel expert

:48:41.:48:43.

with Travelzoo and joins me now. Morning, Louise. Delaying your bank

:48:44.:48:58.

holiday for us. In terms of once you get there, people will be on their

:48:59.:49:03.

way. Is there a big price difference in a resort in Spain or Greece to

:49:04.:49:08.

the pint of beer and sunscreen when you arrive? It depends where you go.

:49:09.:49:14.

If you look at Spain, you think about it in regions. I have looked

:49:15.:49:18.

at pricing. Northern Spain is cheaper than southern Spain. When

:49:19.:49:23.

people flock to the same resorts, prices go up. Less busy places will

:49:24.:49:29.

be cheaper. Even in the country. We are at Good Friday morning. Will

:49:30.:49:33.

there be people still booking their holiday for this weekend, because we

:49:34.:49:38.

have had many years people being more prepared, that is when deals

:49:39.:49:42.

are. There is a trend for the last-minute booking. When I spoke to

:49:43.:49:46.

travel companies we work with we found half of people are booking for

:49:47.:49:50.

holidays in the next ten days. That is something we haven't seen on that

:49:51.:49:55.

scale before. It means people are booking this weekend, for the week

:49:56.:49:59.

ahead and there are deals to Montenegro for ?300 per person for

:50:00.:50:03.

holidays in April. We have another bank holiday in two weeks. Why is it

:50:04.:50:10.

that we are leaving it so last-minute, so many people live at

:50:11.:50:15.

last minute, when ten years ago there were loads of last-minute

:50:16.:50:19.

deals. There was a long period of time when it was better to book in

:50:20.:50:23.

advance. There might be a mini train. Brexit has something to do

:50:24.:50:28.

with it. Post Article 50, people have taken a wait and see attitude

:50:29.:50:34.

with a currency. People have seen it isn't as rocky as feared, so they

:50:35.:50:39.

are booking in droves. If you look back to last year, people were

:50:40.:50:42.

booking 69 month in advance. This year is different. In summer I

:50:43.:50:46.

expect it will be different. And the weak pound might have an effect on

:50:47.:50:50.

taste and where people go. Arrival numbers have been going up to

:50:51.:50:55.

overseas countries. The numbers are not going down. People are picking

:50:56.:51:00.

destinations that are affordable. All-inclusive is popular as well.

:51:01.:51:06.

Thank you very much. People still booking even though it is Good

:51:07.:51:11.

Friday morning. I just can't get my head around that.

:51:12.:51:16.

Art may not be the first thing you think of when somebody mentions

:51:17.:51:20.

Although it was the home of poet Philip Larkin,

:51:21.:51:23.

it's probably fair to say that over the years its reputation has

:51:24.:51:26.

Hull is the UK City of Culture and every day throughout 2017 it

:51:27.:51:32.

People have already been flooding in to see what the city

:51:33.:51:37.

Colin Paterson is there for us this morning reflecting on the highlights

:51:38.:51:41.

so far, and to take a look at what is still to come.

:51:42.:51:44.

I recognise that, that is the poppies. They are back. This is

:51:45.:51:49.

Queen Victoria Square. Those are the ceramic poppies that were outside

:51:50.:51:52.

the Tao of London in 2014, commemorating those who died in the

:51:53.:51:55.

First World War. This is the Maritime Museum in Hull and many

:51:56.:51:59.

other fishermen were involved in the First World War and their boats were

:52:00.:52:02.

used to look for submarine. This is just one of many events happening

:52:03.:52:06.

right now for the city of culture. This week Hull went 100 days as City

:52:07.:52:12.

of Culture so we thought it was time for Breakfast to find out what has

:52:13.:52:16.

been going on. I ended up in some unusual places.

:52:17.:52:17.

The place would have spelt of carpet, overalls and a makeshift

:52:18.:52:27.

fire. Hull, City of Culture, where even taxis have been turned into

:52:28.:52:31.

theatres. And it raises up, pumping to handle. For the next three

:52:32.:52:38.

months, Wayne Jackson is presenting a show to an audience of six in the

:52:39.:52:43.

back of his father's cab. The show is only 20 minutes. I am doing at

:52:44.:52:49.

eight times a day. It is demanding and challenging. And his dad is

:52:50.:52:54.

loving it. It is absolutely excellent. It is combining my son's

:52:55.:52:59.

work and mind. We have always been proud of him. Had you ever done

:53:00.:53:04.

anything arty before? Nothing at all. Venues have been popping up all

:53:05.:53:12.

over the city. This week's opening, Flood, performed on a floating stage

:53:13.:53:17.

in the middle of a residential area. These people in their flats have

:53:18.:53:20.

been looking on us for six weeks. We have been chatting to them, we have

:53:21.:53:26.

been to local primer schools, we have a little boy called Jim who

:53:27.:53:30.

comes every date on his way from school and asked what we are doing.

:53:31.:53:34.

And who should arrived at that moment but Jim for his daily

:53:35.:53:38.

inspection, sharing the title that the crew have bestowed on him. The

:53:39.:53:45.

executive producer. Excellent, great title. It is a small example of how

:53:46.:53:54.

people of all ages have been getting involved since Hull's year in the

:53:55.:53:58.

spotlight began on January the first with a musical firework display.

:53:59.:54:01.

Other highlights so far have included the visit of enormous

:54:02.:54:05.

Scotch other Blade and the Humber Bridge being given a musical

:54:06.:54:10.

accompaniment from Opera North. It has been a magical start to the year

:54:11.:54:13.

with hundreds of residents getting involved and people from all over

:54:14.:54:18.

coming to experience Hull. Those who have lived in Hull all their lives

:54:19.:54:21.

have noticed a difference. It has brightened everything. It is lovely.

:54:22.:54:27.

It is a pleasure to the hometown. And there is still eight and a half

:54:28.:54:29.

months to go. Yes, 250 days to go. Let's find out

:54:30.:54:39.

what can be expected. Here are the men who know about it. The BBC face

:54:40.:54:49.

of Hull and Hull city culture. I was here on the first of January for

:54:50.:54:54.

fireworks. What has been going on? Well, the poppies have been and

:54:55.:55:00.

gone, the Blade has gone, there has been an amazing opening and it is

:55:01.:55:04.

getting people through. This is the Art gallery that will host the

:55:05.:55:11.

Turner prize. Yes,. Before that we have the sea of Hull painting. 3500

:55:12.:55:17.

people will turn up in the city centre naked, painted in blue.

:55:18.:55:22.

Phenomenal. Did you go for it? I didn't. We have heard a little about

:55:23.:55:30.

how people are getting involved. How have you gone about trying to make

:55:31.:55:38.

sure these isn't elitist? We have reworked the CD-ROM, spent ?45

:55:39.:55:43.

million doing it up so that it is something we can enjoy and have

:55:44.:55:51.

people here, we had 340,000 people from Hull. That is more than the

:55:52.:55:55.

population -- the city centre. It shows how many people have come to

:55:56.:55:59.

visit the city. That was a free festival people could take part in

:56:00.:56:03.

an come along and see first hand. Many events like that all year and

:56:04.:56:07.

the place is buzzing. If people want to find out what has been going on,

:56:08.:56:13.

you have a special programme. Yes, the first episode will be on at

:56:14.:56:20.

12:30pm on the News Channel, about my time in Iceland with John Grant,

:56:21.:56:24.

bringing over the north Atlantic festival at the end of April. We

:56:25.:56:29.

will catch up with a few other people. It will be great. That will

:56:30.:56:34.

be on at 12:30pm and 8pm if you want to find out what is going on. We

:56:35.:56:39.

will speak with more organisers and performance. We will talk to you

:56:40.:56:41.

soon. I think if you want a last-minute

:56:42.:56:48.

destination this Easter weekend, we have found one. Why not?

:56:49.:56:52.

So, the Easter weekend not looking too bad,

:56:53.:00:11.

yes, it is cooler than last weekend, but lots of dry weather around

:00:12.:00:15.

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:00:16.:00:22.

America drops what is known as the 'Mother Of All Bombs'

:00:23.:00:25.

on so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan.

:00:26.:00:26.

Seen here in tests, it is the largest non-nuclear device

:00:27.:00:29.

the US has used in conflict, and targeted a network

:00:30.:00:32.

We are so proud of our military, and it was another successful event.

:00:33.:00:53.

Also this morning: Unions representing 500,000 teachers claim

:00:54.:00:57.

schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years,

:00:58.:01:00.

even though the Government says it is spending a record amount.

:01:01.:01:04.

Two bank holidays just two weeks apart means two million of us

:01:05.:01:08.

This morning, I'm taking a look at whether it is any cheaper

:01:09.:01:13.

Morning from inside the Crucible, either famous table here, home of

:01:14.:01:25.

the world Snooker championship for four decades and ahead of this

:01:26.:01:29.

year's competition, when we will decide who will lift this famous

:01:30.:01:34.

trophy, all the great and good of snooker will gather for a

:01:35.:01:37.

celebration with over 900 fans, as they look back on 40 years of drama.

:01:38.:01:40.

It might seem like a dog's life spending your day in the office.

:01:41.:01:43.

We will discuss why more companies are encouraging people

:01:44.:01:46.

Very good morning to you. Alternating days of cloudy today,

:01:47.:01:57.

sunny tomorrow. Same again on Sunday and Monday. A little bit on the

:01:58.:02:00.

cooler side this weekend but when the sun is out it should still feel

:02:01.:02:05.

quite doesn't. I will have your full Easter forecast coming in the next

:02:06.:02:06.

15 minutes. First, our main story:

:02:07.:02:06.

It is being reported 36 members of so-called Islamic State have been

:02:07.:02:10.

killed, after the United states dropped the biggest

:02:11.:02:13.

non-nuclear weapon ever used President Trump described

:02:14.:02:15.

the operation to destroy a series of underground caves

:02:16.:02:19.

as a very successful mission" Our North America editor

:02:20.:02:21.

John Sopel has more. This is the GBU-43,

:02:22.:02:30.

also known as a MOAB, a Massive Ordnance Air Blast,

:02:31.:02:32.

or as it is more commonly known, The largest non-nuclear

:02:33.:02:36.

weapon ever deployed. The target - so-called

:02:37.:02:46.

Islamic State in Afghanistan. We targeted a system of tunnels

:02:47.:02:49.

and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely,

:02:50.:02:52.

making it easier for them to target US military advisers

:02:53.:02:55.

and Afghan forces in the area. It is turning out to be a busy time

:02:56.:02:59.

for the commander-in-chief. We are so proud of our military,

:03:00.:03:02.

and it was another successful event. The tunnels and caves that were used

:03:03.:03:09.

by the Taliban over 15 years ago This bomb was dropped

:03:10.:03:13.

on a complex tunnel network in Nangarhar Province,

:03:14.:03:17.

close to the Pakistan border, where a member of US special forces

:03:18.:03:20.

was killed last week. But the actions brought a furious

:03:21.:03:23.

tweet from Afghanistan's former It is not just the dropping

:03:24.:03:25.

of a massive bomb on Afghanistan. In just over a week,

:03:26.:03:38.

President Trump has ordered the missile strike on Syria,

:03:39.:03:40.

a naval battle group to head to the Korean Peninsula, and he has

:03:41.:03:44.

restated his commitment to Nato. Some of Donald Trump's

:03:45.:03:48.

supporters are asking, whatever happened

:03:49.:03:50.

to the isolationist, America-first President

:03:51.:03:52.

of the inauguration? Unions representing 500,000 teachers

:03:53.:04:03.

say schools in England are facing the worst real-term

:04:04.:04:06.

cuts for 20 years. The NUT and NASUWT will discuss

:04:07.:04:08.

what they say is a crisis in funding when they meet today

:04:09.:04:12.

at their Easter conferences. But the Government says ?40 billion

:04:13.:04:14.

is being spent on schools this year, Our education correspondent

:04:15.:04:17.

Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martin's School in Essex

:04:18.:04:29.

is a good school, but even here, it has become increasingly

:04:30.:04:32.

difficult to recruit staff, At one stage, they had a science

:04:33.:04:34.

teacher vacancy for more But there are also shortages

:04:35.:04:41.

in maths and modern languages. I look at the pool of people that

:04:42.:04:46.

are teaching in those areas, and the number of people that

:04:47.:04:50.

are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people

:04:51.:04:54.

that are coming in that aren't actually a specialist in the subject

:04:55.:04:57.

area that they're teaching, and I think that this is really

:04:58.:05:03.

the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering

:05:04.:05:07.

for their conferences at a time There have been widespread protests

:05:08.:05:09.

from parents and schools who say, without more money, class sizes

:05:10.:05:13.

will go up and teaching posts The Government points out ?40

:05:14.:05:17.

billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest

:05:18.:05:20.

cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasn't taken

:05:21.:05:22.

into account rising costs, like pay, pensions,

:05:23.:05:25.

and the running costs of schools. The funding pressure is also

:05:26.:05:28.

beginning to hit parents, something of a concern

:05:29.:05:30.

to the unions. Half of parents are saying they're

:05:31.:05:33.

making at least one financial contribution to the school's funds,

:05:34.:05:37.

in order to "enhance resources", whatever that means,

:05:38.:05:40.

at school level. And many parents are finding that

:05:41.:05:43.

even the cost of a school uniform is something which they

:05:44.:05:47.

can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet

:05:48.:05:50.

about Government plans to introduce Teachers argue money set aside

:05:51.:05:53.

for them would be better spent However, the Government says this

:05:54.:05:59.

new wave of grammars would benefit

:06:00.:06:03.

less-well-off families. Foreign ministers from Syria

:06:04.:06:09.

and Iran are holding talks with their Russian

:06:10.:06:11.

counterpart in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian

:06:12.:06:13.

leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had

:06:14.:06:16.

been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack a Syrian

:06:17.:06:20.

government airfield. A future Labour government says it

:06:21.:06:31.

would bring in a law preventing More than 1,000 local

:06:32.:06:35.

branches closed in the UK Labour says lending to small

:06:36.:06:38.

businesses decreases in areas where banks close,

:06:39.:06:42.

but the Conservatives said their support for small

:06:43.:06:44.

businesses, including start-up A clean-up operation

:06:45.:06:46.

is under way in New Zealand, after a powerful storm

:06:47.:06:53.

swept across the country. Cyclone Cook was expected

:06:54.:06:55.

to be the worst storm Hawke's Bay on the east

:06:56.:06:58.

coast was worst-hit, with hundreds of families

:06:59.:07:01.

forced from their homes, road closures,

:07:02.:07:03.

and downed powerlines. The accommodation booking service

:07:04.:07:11.

Airbnb is improving the security of its app and website,

:07:12.:07:13.

after a BBC investigation found people's homes had been burgled

:07:14.:07:16.

by criminals using stolen accounts. The scammers changed some personal

:07:17.:07:18.

details and used them Our technology reporter

:07:19.:07:21.

Chris Foxx has more. Like millions of people, Christian

:07:22.:07:35.

had let out his home on Airbnb while he was out of town as a convenient

:07:36.:07:39.

way to make some extra money. He had done so for years without a problem,

:07:40.:07:43.

but on his birthday his home was burgled. I got that horrible text

:07:44.:07:47.

message saying someone is in the account and it is not me, because my

:07:48.:07:51.

account had been compromises. Christian thought he had let out his

:07:52.:07:56.

home to a verified profile, somebody who had verified government and

:07:57.:07:59.

navigation and had positive reviews from previous bookings. But the

:08:00.:08:02.

account had been stolen. The had changed that name, photograph and

:08:03.:08:07.

contact details on the profile but kept Airbnb's verified badge. And

:08:08.:08:11.

Christian is not alone. The BBC has spoken to two are the people who

:08:12.:08:14.

were robbed this way, and three others who had their accounts

:08:15.:08:18.

stolen, and Airbnb's Facebook page has dozens of comments from people

:08:19.:08:21.

who had their accounts compromises. There are many ways attackers could

:08:22.:08:25.

have been hijacking Airbnb accounts. They might be a trick people into

:08:26.:08:29.

handing over their passwords. But there are ways Airbnb could have

:08:30.:08:33.

defended against this. We put our security concerns to Airbnb. The

:08:34.:08:46.

company said... Those changes include two step verification when

:08:47.:08:51.

somebody logs in from a new device, and text message alerts if somebody

:08:52.:08:55.

changes your profile information. At four Christian, the changes come too

:08:56.:08:59.

late. He says the whole experience has left him with a bad feeling, and

:09:00.:09:02.

he may not use Airbnb again. It is expected to one of the busiest

:09:03.:09:04.

days on the roads today, with around 20 million car journeys

:09:05.:09:07.

expected over the Easter weekend. Millions more will be heading

:09:08.:09:10.

abroad, as they make the most of two bank holidays in the

:09:11.:09:14.

space of two weeks. Catrina Renton is in East London

:09:15.:09:16.

this morning, with the latest. A lot of people going to be on the

:09:17.:09:31.

roads and travelling, how do you think it is going to look? Well,

:09:32.:09:35.

Charlie, I am on the A102 at the moment and it is a good time to get

:09:36.:09:40.

away right now it is quite quiet, but that is going to change. Over

:09:41.:09:43.

the weekend around 20 million journeys on the road is expected to

:09:44.:09:46.

be taking, and the company which compiles data are saying you can

:09:47.:09:50.

expect delays of double the time of your normal journey on the major

:09:51.:09:54.

motorways, that would be the pinch points between 10am and 2pm, the

:09:55.:09:58.

time they say to try and avoid travelling. It is not just the roads

:09:59.:10:02.

that are busy. The airports, as we have been hearing on the programme,

:10:03.:10:06.

2 million people going away overseas on Easter break. The airports expect

:10:07.:10:10.

this to be their busiest day of the weekend. The top destination being

:10:11.:10:15.

Spain as the favourite. On the railways and different picture.

:10:16.:10:21.

Network Rail see fewer passengers on holiday weekend as an opportunity to

:10:22.:10:24.

get some work done. 200 engineering projects will affect journeys.

:10:25.:10:31.

Trains to London, Manchester, Bath, Glasgow and Edinburgh are affected

:10:32.:10:37.

and you should check to see what is affected before you head out. If you

:10:38.:10:40.

are looking for a break from the busy travel on Easter Sunday, we can

:10:41.:10:44.

expect a drop in the number of cars on the road before people had phoned

:10:45.:10:49.

again on Monday. And if you want to know the local situation where you

:10:50.:10:52.

are, watch the TV bulletins on your stations here, of course, on the

:10:53.:10:56.

BBC, and check out the local BBC radio stations. They will keep you

:10:57.:11:00.

right up to date. But it looks to me like a good time to get away now if

:11:01.:11:05.

you can. We will catch up with you a little later on, thank you very

:11:06.:11:08.

much. Basically leave now is the advice, or an hour ago.

:11:09.:11:11.

Nasa says one of Saturn's moons, known as Enceladus, may now be

:11:12.:11:14.

the best place to look for life beyond earth.

:11:15.:11:17.

Samples of the waters erupting from the moon's surface suggest it

:11:18.:11:20.

has all the conditions needed for life.

:11:21.:11:22.

The discovery was made through Nasa's Cassini probe,

:11:23.:11:24.

which has been exploring Saturn since 2004.

:11:25.:11:33.

And if that is something that excites you, and let's face it, it

:11:34.:11:40.

is a tantalising prospect, we will be discussing it after 8am this

:11:41.:11:44.

morning. What sort of life? Who knows?

:11:45.:11:51.

It has been almost a year since so-called legal highs

:11:52.:11:54.

were banned, but recent news coverage of people openly

:11:55.:11:57.

using the synthetic drug Spice, in public, means it is under

:11:58.:12:00.

Now, paramedics say the unpredictable effects

:12:01.:12:03.

of the substances on users is making their job harder,

:12:04.:12:05.

Dan Whitworth has more on this story.

:12:06.:12:09.

A warning - his report contains images of drug taking.

:12:10.:12:15.

Spice was banned by the Government nearly a year ago, along with other

:12:16.:12:21.

so-called highs, but that doesn't worry Adam and Derek.

:12:22.:12:26.

Since the ban came in, it's easier to get ahold

:12:27.:12:30.

of, and it is

:12:31.:12:31.

Police in Manchester say they dealt with around 60 incidents involving

:12:32.:12:42.

While the College of Paramedics, which represents 11,000 emergency

:12:43.:12:46.

workers across the UK, says the use of synthetic drugs

:12:47.:12:48.

is making treating people even harder.

:12:49.:12:50.

Spitting, biting, punching, kicking, those things are what paramedics

:12:51.:12:56.

So it's important for people to realise that this substance,

:12:57.:13:00.

whatever it is you are taking, it could kill you.

:13:01.:13:03.

Unfortunately that is what we are seeing, kids are dying.

:13:04.:13:06.

It is a familiar problem for people at charities like Lighthouse. I have

:13:07.:13:16.

been smoking spice for nine years. And it is a luxury. Three years ago

:13:17.:13:22.

that is when my life started with spice. It has just ruin my life,

:13:23.:13:26.

basically. The government says it will publish

:13:27.:13:30.

a drug strategy shortly, aimed at stopping the use

:13:31.:13:34.

of synthetic drugs like Spice, and it says anyone caught

:13:35.:13:36.

using these kinds of drugs already Joining us now is Neil Woods,

:13:37.:13:39.

a former undercover drugs police officer who is now the chairman

:13:40.:13:44.

of Leap UK, which campaigns This has happened with similar

:13:45.:14:08.

legislation in Ireland and Poland. People are taking it because it is

:14:09.:14:13.

cheap. Pictures shown on the clip here of homeless people. These

:14:14.:14:17.

people are not zombies. They are struggling to cope with life on the

:14:18.:14:25.

streets. Having worked amongst homeless people and manipulating

:14:26.:14:30.

them myself as an undercover police officer, I am sure that if I had to

:14:31.:14:34.

live on the streets, I would not cope without getting high as cheaply

:14:35.:14:38.

as possible and it would be the case with most people. We saw some of

:14:39.:14:41.

those glimpses and people maybe saw that with their own eyes in high

:14:42.:14:47.

streets, people taking Spice, other substances, and the unpredictable

:14:48.:14:51.

effects they have. What can you tell us about that, especially to do with

:14:52.:14:56.

Spice? When you surrender a commodity to the black market, it

:14:57.:15:00.

becomes adulterated. There is no control at all what is in it. So the

:15:01.:15:04.

strongest possible chemicals are in it. It is financially worthwhile to

:15:05.:15:09.

gangsters to sell the strongest product because it is the most

:15:10.:15:13.

cost-effective. The economy of the black market makes drugs more

:15:14.:15:17.

dangerous. That is why you are seeing more into acting effect,

:15:18.:15:22.

unpredictable drugs. It is the same with wider drugs legislation, since

:15:23.:15:27.

banning them they have become stronger, cheaper and more varied.

:15:28.:15:32.

Is it and after effect of the tightening of legislation

:15:33.:15:37.

surrounding marijuana? Well, cannabis is an interesting one.

:15:38.:15:41.

People call this synthetic cannabis. It is not. People take it for a

:15:42.:15:45.

headache and it is in the same chemical family as heroin but it is

:15:46.:15:50.

not the same thing. It is far more dangerous than cannabis. It is safe

:15:51.:15:53.

to say if it was regulated 15 years ago, synthetic cannabinoids, Spice,

:15:54.:16:00.

would be around because it is a product of the prohibition. People

:16:01.:16:05.

watching this, and I know you take a different view, one of the jobs of

:16:06.:16:10.

administrations, of government, of lawmakers, is that you set laws up

:16:11.:16:16.

to stop people doing things you don't want them to do. And you don't

:16:17.:16:21.

want people taking Spice, so that is why the legislation is there. You

:16:22.:16:24.

want to send out a statement of things you don't want people doing.

:16:25.:16:30.

You know people say that. That is the argument. How do you deal with

:16:31.:16:34.

that thing, that if you make it legally available you are sending

:16:35.:16:37.

the message it is something that is acceptable? Messages don't save

:16:38.:16:42.

lives or reduce harm. The legislation as it has been, drug

:16:43.:16:46.

laws and approaching drugs, is not working. Every time you ban

:16:47.:16:50.

something it empowers the black market and makes the black market

:16:51.:16:54.

more violent and more dangerous. Drugs can be dangerous. We need to

:16:55.:16:59.

get them under control. That is why we at Leap UK, ex- military, ex-

:17:00.:17:04.

operatives, have worked on the frontline with drugs. We are telling

:17:05.:17:09.

you that we need to get this problem under control and you can only do

:17:10.:17:12.

that by regulating. We have no control over it at the moment

:17:13.:17:16.

because gangsters supply it. How many people, you know, distressing

:17:17.:17:21.

images on public streets, shopping centres, bus stops. People in this

:17:22.:17:25.

zombielike state - how many people should have been helped, could have

:17:26.:17:28.

been helped with early intervention from mental health services?

:17:29.:17:33.

Exactly. Clearly, these people need help. The way that we treat homeless

:17:34.:17:39.

people is just horrific. Walking along the streets of Manchester

:17:40.:17:43.

here, the numbers of people has increased so much. Even if you don't

:17:44.:17:47.

care about these vulnerable people, think about the financial situation.

:17:48.:17:53.

It is actually - policing drugs is the single is biggest thing in

:17:54.:17:56.

policing. It is extremely expensive. It is cheaper to look after people.

:17:57.:18:02.

If you invest in the mental health services, if you invest in

:18:03.:18:06.

accommodation for these people, ask the police officers going to the

:18:07.:18:10.

calls, time after time, like last weekend, what would they rather

:18:11.:18:13.

spend time doing, I think they would rather be doing something which is

:18:14.:18:19.

positive. OK, thank you for your time this morning. Undercover drugs

:18:20.:18:26.

detective and now director of Leap UK.

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You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:18:28.:18:29.

The main stories this morning: The Afghan military says 36 members

:18:30.:18:32.

of so-called Islamic estate were killed after the US dropped

:18:33.:18:35.

what it called the mother of all bombs on a network of caves.

:18:36.:18:38.

Schools in England are facing the worst cuts for 20 years

:18:39.:18:41.

according to unions representing half a million teachers.

:18:42.:18:44.

But the government says it's spending a record amount

:18:45.:18:46.

Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather.

:18:47.:18:55.

Good morning. A stunning shot this morning from a Weather Watcher in

:18:56.:19:05.

Aberdeenshire, it sums up the Easter weekend. Sunshine, quite a bit of

:19:06.:19:11.

cloud and what you is a little cool weather as well. Let's look at the

:19:12.:19:18.

details today. It will be a cloudy day with plenty across the centre of

:19:19.:19:22.

the UK, although some sunshine as you saw in northern Scotland, and

:19:23.:19:28.

for southern England and the. Cloud in between for north Wales -- Wales.

:19:29.:19:34.

Doubt whether to start the afternoon in Northern Ireland, sliding into

:19:35.:19:36.

north-west England and Wales later. Northern Ireland will finish the day

:19:37.:19:42.

dry and sunny with light wind. And where we have sunny spells in the

:19:43.:19:46.

north of Scotland, Iraq showers to spoil it now and again, some of the

:19:47.:19:53.

most dry weather in the north-east. For the north-east, for the

:19:54.:19:57.

Pennines, across the western side, the afternoon his looking wetter

:19:58.:20:00.

than this morning and the same for Wales. It won't feel great out

:20:01.:20:03.

there. Southern England, the Midlands and East Anglia, we see the

:20:04.:20:08.

dry weather. And with sunny spells maybe even a touch warmer than

:20:09.:20:12.

yesterday. Here into tonight you will see some rain pushed through.

:20:13.:20:15.

It won't affect everyone. Some of the gardens will only get a sip

:20:16.:20:20.

rather than a drink of rain. As it clears, the skies clear and air

:20:21.:20:24.

pushes in. The cold air means a touch of frost, across the

:20:25.:20:30.

countryside, the Midlands northwards, and showers overnight,

:20:31.:20:34.

continuing into Saturday. Strong and gusty winds. Quite a breeze across

:20:35.:20:38.

the UK that will make it feel cool in cloudy moment. If anything,

:20:39.:20:44.

Saturday will be sunny for the weekend with one or two showers here

:20:45.:20:47.

and there. Temperatures around nine to 14, where they should be, but it

:20:48.:20:53.

will feel cold if you are heading to the Scottish mountains on Saturday.

:20:54.:20:58.

Conditions are far from ideal, gales with subzero temperatures, leading

:20:59.:21:03.

to a city windchill and, yes, snow on the mountains. We cut off the

:21:04.:21:08.

feat of cold air into Sunday but weather fronts mean it is back to

:21:09.:21:12.

cloudy weather on Sunday -- feed. The best sunshine, like today,

:21:13.:21:15.

southern England, northern Scotland, in between cloud, at Kasyanov rain

:21:16.:21:19.

and dry weather with temperatures lifting compare to Saturday. -- and

:21:20.:21:25.

cloud and rain. There is bright weather also on Monday, sunny spells

:21:26.:21:29.

for just about all, one or two showers here and there but most of

:21:30.:21:33.

you will avoid them and still a cool breeze along the eastern coast of

:21:34.:21:36.

northern England and eastern Scotland. Elsewhere, little in the

:21:37.:21:40.

way of wind on Easter Monday, when the sun shines it will feel

:21:41.:21:44.

pleasantly warm. Back to you both. A question for you, are you a pet

:21:45.:21:48.

owner and, if you are, have you taken your pet to work? I am not. I

:21:49.:21:53.

don't fancy taking it to work, would you? You haven't got one anyway. I

:21:54.:21:56.

have brought my daughter to work. It is along the same line, not quite

:21:57.:22:05.

the same. It didn't work very well. She is probably better trained than

:22:06.:22:11.

most pets. We are dog owners. A .5 million. Would it be a good thing

:22:12.:22:18.

for people to bring them to work? What do you think I am going to say?

:22:19.:22:23.

We have sat here on the sofa with my dog. It was a disaster, it put me

:22:24.:22:27.

right off my work. She was excellent and that is not true. She was

:22:28.:22:31.

frightened of the dog trainer at the time.

:22:32.:22:31.

Susannah Streeter has been finding out.

:22:32.:22:38.

Brooke, Reggie, Max and Peggy are office at ease at Nestle in Gatwick.

:22:39.:22:45.

The pets at work scheme proved so popular that by the end of the year

:22:46.:22:49.

around 100 dogs past and assessment to gain their own staff pass. I

:22:50.:22:54.

think some people did wonder how many dogs would actually come into

:22:55.:22:58.

the office and whether we would have large numbers or packs of dogs

:22:59.:23:01.

roaming the office. The reality is on any given day we probably have

:23:02.:23:07.

between 20- 25 dogs in an office of 1000 people. And in fact it is very

:23:08.:23:12.

rare to even hear a dog park in the office. They are here if you want to

:23:13.:23:16.

find one. The dog don't just relieve stress, they also help build office

:23:17.:23:22.

camaraderie. It has made me make friends. People come and talk to me.

:23:23.:23:25.

They know my dog. And it opens doors. What about the time when she

:23:26.:23:31.

needs to go to the loo? She starts to get up and pays around and look

:23:32.:23:36.

at me. We have had the odd accident. Doctor a care is ?30- ?40 per day.

:23:37.:23:43.

-- dog daycare. I have three of them. For me it is a big saving.

:23:44.:23:47.

Have there been fallouts with other dogs? Not that I have seen. They

:23:48.:23:51.

love chasing each other around the park. You hear the odd Barca, that

:23:52.:23:56.

is it. So, just how easy it is it taking your pet into the workplace?

:23:57.:24:01.

-- bark. I have borrowed Monet to find out. This is the BBC. Come on.

:24:02.:24:07.

-- Marna. This is the business unit. I am going for an editorial meeting.

:24:08.:24:13.

Dow Jones on last night from the slide. Here we go. Here we are.

:24:14.:24:18.

Claire, if you hear designer is as it is because we have a dog in this

:24:19.:24:24.

morning's meeting. OK. Different. I am going to the studio now, down to

:24:25.:24:29.

make up. I am going to give you a little bit too. I might need to

:24:30.:24:34.

brush off a feudal pairs. Marna remained calmly inquisitive until

:24:35.:24:37.

she saw the cleaning trolley. We have a little guest in today.

:24:38.:24:43.

Marna's following me around. She is scared. Next, the BBC will studio,

:24:44.:24:47.

we meet Debra Conolly, a dog specialist. You are gorgeous indeed.

:24:48.:24:53.

Every office is different. Some are quiet, somehow the public in and

:24:54.:24:57.

out. You need to be sure your dog has the right temperament and

:24:58.:25:00.

recognise the signs your dog might be struggling. And make sure the

:25:01.:25:04.

other people in the office have checked out to be sure they are not

:25:05.:25:08.

afraid or allergic and take a bag of goodies for your dog to be

:25:09.:25:11.

entertained. Interview over, it is lunchtime, and Marna can spend it

:25:12.:25:17.

with me. And after her performance in the editorial meeting, I think

:25:18.:25:20.

she deserves a treat, don't you, Marna? Come on.

:25:21.:25:23.

Well, I don't know about you, but I think we have been replaced. Oscar

:25:24.:25:30.

has been watching the programme, he is absolutely glued to that report.

:25:31.:25:36.

Is he going to give me his paw? Oh, thank you, Oscar. He likes to hold

:25:37.:25:43.

hands. Yes. If you are wondering who Oscar is, Oscar has been brought in

:25:44.:25:49.

by his owner, Phil, who will talk to later, just about the story, is it a

:25:50.:25:53.

good thing to bring your to work? It is worth saying that if you don't

:25:54.:25:58.

like dogs, and, you know, a workmate brings in a dog, it won't work, will

:25:59.:26:05.

it? Is Oscar going? No, he is fine. If you have pictures to share,

:26:06.:26:09.

stories of the benefits of having a dog in the workplace, or another

:26:10.:26:14.

pet. It is pets generally. Oh, the sofa is short. He is one of the best

:26:15.:26:21.

behaved guests we have ever had. I love him.

:26:22.:26:22.

Still to come this morning: How Hull is bringing out the hidden art lover

:26:23.:26:27.

We'll be live in the Uk's City of Culture.

:26:28.:26:35.

It is looking beautiful today. They are in fact Lego daffodils. They are

:26:36.:26:41.

not quite real. They are clever. Very clever.

:26:42.:26:44.

Let's get the news, travel and weather where

:26:45.:30:02.

Now, though, it's back to Sally and Charlie.

:30:03.:30:05.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:30:06.:30:17.

It is being reported 36 members of so-called Islamic state

:30:18.:30:20.

were killed after the United States dropped what was described

:30:21.:30:22.

as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' in Afghanistan.

:30:23.:30:25.

The weapon is the largest non-nuclear bomb to have ever been

:30:26.:30:27.

The target was a network of underground tunnels.

:30:28.:30:36.

The attack has been condemned by the former Afghan president Hamid

:30:37.:30:39.

Unions representing 500,000 teachers say schools in England are facing

:30:40.:30:44.

the worst real-term cuts for 20 years.

:30:45.:30:46.

The NUT and NASUWT will discuss what they say is a crisis in funding

:30:47.:30:50.

when they meet today at their Easter conferences.

:30:51.:30:52.

But the Government says ?40 billion is being spent on schools this year,

:30:53.:30:56.

Unions say schools staff shortages are increasing,

:30:57.:30:59.

and there is a reduction in vocational subjects.

:31:00.:31:04.

I think funding is going to be the theme that dominates

:31:05.:31:07.

the conversations, because around the country, class sizes

:31:08.:31:09.

are going up, we are seeing arts, dance, drama, music being cut,

:31:10.:31:13.

We are seeing schools that are having letters sent to parents

:31:14.:31:17.

to ask them for money, to try and make up for the gap

:31:18.:31:20.

the Government is causing in school budgets.

:31:21.:31:28.

Foreign ministers from Syria and Iran are holding talks

:31:29.:31:31.

with their Russian counterpart in Moscow today.

:31:32.:31:33.

It comes a day after the Syrian leader denied using chemical weapons

:31:34.:31:36.

President Assad said evidence had been fabricated to give the US

:31:37.:31:40.

an excuse to attack a Syrian government airfield.

:31:41.:31:46.

Nigeria says it is actively negotiating with the Islamist

:31:47.:31:49.

militant group Boko Haram to free the Chibok schoolgirls

:31:50.:31:51.

who were kidnapped three years ago today.

:31:52.:31:53.

More than 270 students were seized from their dormitories,

:31:54.:31:56.

and almost 200 of the girls are still being held in captivity.

:31:57.:31:59.

Demonstrators will hold events later today in the capital,

:32:00.:32:01.

Abuja, and in Lagos, to mark the anniversary.

:32:02.:32:11.

A future Labour government says it would bring in a law preventing

:32:12.:32:14.

More than 1,000 local branches closed in the UK

:32:15.:32:18.

Labour says lending to small businesses decreases in areas

:32:19.:32:21.

where banks close, but the Conservatives

:32:22.:32:23.

said their support for small businesses, including start-up

:32:24.:32:25.

A clean-up operation is under way in New Zealand,

:32:26.:32:34.

after a powerful storm swept across the country.

:32:35.:32:36.

Cyclone Cook was expected to be the worst storm

:32:37.:32:39.

Hawke's Bay on the east coast was worst-hit,

:32:40.:32:43.

with hundreds of families forced from their homes,

:32:44.:32:45.

road closures, and downed powerlines.

:32:46.:32:51.

It is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year,

:32:52.:32:54.

Around 20 million car journeys will be made on the UK's roads

:32:55.:32:59.

by Monday, with trips on major routes expected to take up

:33:00.:33:02.

The M25, M6 and M5 are expected to be worst affected.

:33:03.:33:10.

Up to two million are expected to fly away from the gridlock

:33:11.:33:13.

for a trip overseas, with Spain being the top destination.

:33:14.:33:15.

Nasa says one of Saturn's moons, known as Enceladus, may now be

:33:16.:33:44.

the best place to look for life beyond earth.

:33:45.:33:47.

Samples of the waters erupting from the moon's surface suggest it

:33:48.:33:50.

has all the conditions needed for life.

:33:51.:33:52.

The discovery was made through Nasa's Cassini probe,

:33:53.:33:54.

which has been exploring Saturn since 2004.

:33:55.:33:58.

We will be discussing that a bit later because people get excited

:33:59.:34:02.

about the prospect of life elsewhere. And all of the

:34:03.:34:06.

all-important bank holiday weather as well. Looking over my shoulder,

:34:07.:34:17.

you can see Mike Bushell in a waistcoat for the start of the world

:34:18.:34:21.

Snooker championship. Yes, good morning. Hush hush. The head of

:34:22.:34:26.

World Snooker has dominated the table so far. He goes for an easy

:34:27.:34:31.

read, lining himself up. I haven't had a look and so far. I am not

:34:32.:34:37.

surprised, really, you are the chair of World Snooker after all. This is

:34:38.:34:43.

the practice room at the Crucible, where players come ten or 15 minutes

:34:44.:34:49.

before a session or a match. You missed the blue, so I will give ago

:34:50.:34:53.

now. This is where they come before a session. If it is going badly,

:34:54.:34:59.

like for Barry, they might come here during the mid-session interval to

:35:00.:35:02.

try and get their eye back in. At this table is far too big for me, so

:35:03.:35:07.

I was literally going for pot luck there. And Barry, take it away

:35:08.:35:11.

again. While Barry clears the table, I will tell you about the rest of

:35:12.:35:13.

the sport. Elsewhere in sport,

:35:14.:35:16.

it was a frustrating night for Manchester United,

:35:17.:35:18.

as they dominated the first leg of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with

:35:19.:35:21.

Anderlecht, but could only draw. Jose Mourinho's side went

:35:22.:35:23.

ahead before the break, thanks to this goal

:35:24.:35:26.

from Henrikh Mkhitaryan. But they missed some good chances

:35:27.:35:28.

to extend their lead, and five minutes from time,

:35:29.:35:30.

Leander Dendoncker grabbed The second leg is at

:35:31.:35:33.

Old Trafford next week. If you arrive into a situation

:35:34.:35:40.

where mathematically it is not possible, top four,

:35:41.:35:43.

then easy decision. Rest them, and go with them

:35:44.:35:44.

in the Europa League, But at this moment,

:35:45.:35:47.

we are in a position where we have If we win both matches

:35:48.:35:52.

we are direct into the top four. After Elinor Barker won silver

:35:53.:35:56.

in the women's race on Wednesday, Chris Latham won bronze in the men's

:35:57.:36:11.

scratch race at the cycling Track World Championships,

:36:12.:36:14.

in Hong Kong. It is his first international

:36:15.:36:16.

medal as a senior rider, In Super League, Warrington are now

:36:17.:36:19.

unbeaten in three matches, as they try to recover

:36:20.:36:29.

from their terrible start They ran in three tries

:36:30.:36:31.

against bottom club Widnes, the second from Jack Hughes,

:36:32.:36:34.

as they won 19-10. Back at the Crucible, this is the

:36:35.:36:46.

World Championship trophy, it is 90 years old. On the winners' list,

:36:47.:36:52.

winners from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of

:36:53.:36:57.

Ireland, Canada, Australia, not as yet a Chinese name but that could

:36:58.:37:02.

change. There is a feeling that they are the rising superpower of

:37:03.:37:10.

Snooker. I have been to meet Ding to find out more.

:37:11.:37:11.

In a nation of over 1.3 billion people, one man is mobbed

:37:12.:37:15.

Ding Junhui is treated like a movie or pop star.

:37:16.:37:18.

He is one of the most recognised faces across the whole of Asia,

:37:19.:37:22.

because this is the man who sparked a Chinese snooker revolution.

:37:23.:37:25.

To escape such constant attention, he moved to Sheffield,

:37:26.:37:27.

home of the World Championship, where he can lead a relatively

:37:28.:37:30.

I met him this week for a frame at the city's Star Academy,

:37:31.:37:43.

where his private practice room is a world away

:37:44.:37:46.

from all the attention, the 5 million followers on social

:37:47.:37:48.

media, and the 210 million who watched his run to the final

:37:49.:37:52.

The little kids come and ask me how to be like you,

:37:53.:38:04.

and I am very pleased to answer the questions.

:38:05.:38:06.

So yes, I know it is - how boring when you practise.

:38:07.:38:09.

He is certainly not alone anymore in Sheffield.

:38:10.:38:17.

Along with fellow star Marco Fu, they set the trend.

:38:18.:38:20.

Thanks to the likes of Ding and Marco Fu, there is now a steady

:38:21.:38:23.

stream of players coming to dedicate themselves to training,

:38:24.:38:26.

at these academies specially for Chinese players.

:38:27.:38:35.

Also a good Chinese community, lots of Chinese restaurants.

:38:36.:38:39.

It has become a mecca for Chinese snooker players.

:38:40.:38:46.

It is easy to see why China is the new force in snooker.

:38:47.:38:55.

Massive investment in facilities back home, and 70 million people now

:38:56.:38:58.

In five years, I think Chinese players will take over,

:38:59.:39:07.

as the standards are very high at the moment, but they can only

:39:08.:39:11.

Ding's success is rubbing off on so many.

:39:12.:39:14.

He has already won the UK championship and the Masters,

:39:15.:39:24.

but ever since he started playing pool in China,

:39:25.:39:27.

aged eight, the world title has been his burning ambition.

:39:28.:39:29.

On TV I see Steve Davis, they are all legends in snooker.

:39:30.:39:33.

I think, I want to win these titles when I grow up.

:39:34.:39:52.

And if you want the documentary about Ding Junhui, it is now

:39:53.:39:55.

on the BBC iPlayer, and it is called Enter the Dragon: China's Snooker

:39:56.:39:58.

Well worth a watch as well and Jamie Broughton will have a BBC News

:39:59.:40:09.

special tomorrow at lunchtime. You can see how bad Jamie and -- Barry

:40:10.:40:18.

and IR, because look how few balls we have cleared. First of all, 40

:40:19.:40:23.

years. The Snooker World Championships have been here for 40

:40:24.:40:27.

years. Why did it settle at the Crucible? Why did it become the

:40:28.:40:31.

home? A historic story, because the promoters of the championship, Mike

:40:32.:40:37.

Waterson's wife came to the Crucible, went home and told her

:40:38.:40:42.

husband I have found you the perfect venue for the Snooker, and from such

:40:43.:40:47.

openings big things grow. I think the year before it had been in

:40:48.:40:50.

Manchester in a not particularly pleasant arena. Everyone, at the

:40:51.:40:56.

moment they walk through the doors here, they feel this is special. And

:40:57.:41:01.

it has stayed special ever since. It almost is a part of British

:41:02.:41:05.

eccentricity that we are still in a 900 seat venue when we could sell

:41:06.:41:10.

10,000 tickets a day. But it has developed this feeling for the

:41:11.:41:14.

players, and as I say, I have been here for 40 consecutive years, and

:41:15.:41:18.

still yesterday, when I arrived, the hairs on the back of my neck went up

:41:19.:41:22.

when I walked inside. Obviously this is the practice room, but the

:41:23.:41:25.

audience, the fans are so close to you, breathing down your neck. With

:41:26.:41:31.

two tables in play, when we start on Saturday, I think you get more room

:41:32.:41:35.

in your local billiard hall to play on than you would on the greatest

:41:36.:41:39.

stage on earth. So it is very special, it is a unique tournament,

:41:40.:41:45.

and as you said, with Ding, in places like China, a global sport

:41:46.:41:49.

like never before. Do you think they will dominate in years to come? I

:41:50.:41:54.

was in China last week, it is just hundreds of thousands of players. It

:41:55.:41:57.

is part of the school curriculum, you see these 15 or 16-year-old

:41:58.:42:01.

kids. We have one of the greatest first round matches, the 17-year-old

:42:02.:42:06.

player. His first year on tour and he is playing at the Crucible. Give

:42:07.:42:11.

them five years, these European players are really going to have to

:42:12.:42:15.

get their head down. And a special celebration today on 40 years since

:42:16.:42:20.

you came here, so former stars coming down the green carpet for a

:42:21.:42:25.

bit of a party. It is party time, a celebration. Everybody is here.

:42:26.:42:30.

There will be a few memories of Alex Higgins, and people who played such

:42:31.:42:35.

an enormous part in making this such a special occasion. But for me, and

:42:36.:42:40.

Steve Davis, our life has changed here. When he won the world title

:42:41.:42:45.

changed his entire life, and it came back to the Crucible. You can watch

:42:46.:42:50.

it live on iPlayer, the BBC News website. I will try and get a ball

:42:51.:42:57.

down. Let me run around here. I don't think you will have much

:42:58.:43:00.

success with that. You have completely... Well, not snookered me

:43:01.:43:05.

but I have to get around that blue somehow. I think that is why it is

:43:06.:43:17.

the practice room, don't you think? And you can keep those shoes on,

:43:18.:43:21.

have you copped those shoes? Let's see Mike's choose! Show us your

:43:22.:43:31.

shoes. Look at that. How am I supposed to concentrate with shoes

:43:32.:43:36.

like that? Joe Johnson at the Crucible, when he won the world

:43:37.:43:40.

title, wore shoes of a similar ilk. They are not making much difference

:43:41.:43:45.

to my game. Your game is rubbish, the same as mine. In Q4 both --

:43:46.:43:53.

thank you both very much indeed. You are watching

:43:54.:43:56.

Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning:

:43:57.:43:57.

The Afghan military says 36 members of so-called Islamic estate

:43:58.:44:00.

were killed after the US dropped what it called the 'Mother

:44:01.:44:03.

Of All Bombs' on a network of caves. Unions representing 500,000 teachers

:44:04.:44:07.

claim schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years,

:44:08.:44:09.

even though the Government says In those snooker halls, they won't

:44:10.:44:29.

care about the weather, but a lot of other people will.

:44:30.:44:29.

Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather.

:44:30.:44:32.

The first big holiday weekend of the year. It will be one that produces

:44:33.:44:37.

quite a bit of weather variety. This morning, lots of cloud from a

:44:38.:44:48.

Weather Watcher shot showing you, there are breaks in Cambridgeshire

:44:49.:44:53.

and southern parts. The same for northern Scotland. In between, thick

:44:54.:44:58.

cloud, northern England and Wales threatening the odd spot of rain

:44:59.:45:01.

this morning and the odd heavy burst. It will turn damp around

:45:02.:45:05.

lunchtime in Northern Ireland. The wet weather spreads into north-west

:45:06.:45:09.

England and west Wales. North of it we will see sunshine at times in

:45:10.:45:13.

central and northern Scotland. It is punctuated by the odd shower,

:45:14.:45:17.

pushing through on the breeze, and Northern Ireland will brighten up in

:45:18.:45:20.

the evening so that you finish with some sunshine here. Northern England

:45:21.:45:23.

will be cloudy throughout. West of the Pennines most likely to see the

:45:24.:45:27.

bulk of the rain, especially this afternoon, the same for northern and

:45:28.:45:31.

western Wales, the wrangle term persistent. Southeast Wales, largely

:45:32.:45:36.

dry. Much of southern England, Midland and East Anglia will see

:45:37.:45:40.

some breaks in the cloud, so some sunny spells and a touch warmer than

:45:41.:45:43.

yesterday. A breeze adding to the chill, taking the weather front

:45:44.:45:47.

southwards, so a lot of gardeners parched in southern England, and it

:45:48.:45:51.

is more an sip than a drink tonight, some avoiding the showers. And as a

:45:52.:45:57.

weather front pushes through, temperatures drop, so a Kauto Star

:45:58.:46:00.

to Saturday morning with frost around, maybe ice in Scotland with

:46:01.:46:03.

showers to start the day. If anything Saturday is more sunny than

:46:04.:46:08.

today. The odd shower here and there. Chiefly for Scotland. One or

:46:09.:46:13.

two Ellsworth. Most of you will avoid them and be dry throughout.

:46:14.:46:16.

The breeze will be a cold one -- elsewhere. 9- 14 degrees where we

:46:17.:46:21.

should be for the time of year. And this is the sunshine, it will be

:46:22.:46:25.

pleasant enough, although don't be fooled if you are heading to the

:46:26.:46:28.

Scottish mountains. While it might be nice on the valleys, horrible

:46:29.:46:33.

really come back to winter, gale force winds, so the Winchell and

:46:34.:46:38.

even snow at times. The cold wind will ease into Sunday -- wind chill.

:46:39.:46:42.

We are back to the weather front from the Atlantic, so cloudy weather

:46:43.:46:46.

on Easter Sunday. Some sunshine in northern parts of Scotland and a

:46:47.:46:49.

little sunshine at times in southern England. In between, like today,

:46:50.:46:53.

cloud, AK shall rain and temperatures up on what we saw on

:46:54.:47:00.

Saturday. -- some rain. And then, showers around across eastern areas,

:47:01.:47:04.

dry weather on Easter Monday, and a further west you are with wind

:47:05.:47:11.

light, once in the sunshine it should feel nice enough. So,

:47:12.:47:14.

something for everyone, even the gardeners. Back to you both. Thank

:47:15.:47:21.

you. It is a bit mixed over the weekend. Maybe you are thinking of

:47:22.:47:28.

going away. Sean is explaining why we have bank holiday weekend close

:47:29.:47:32.

together. Lots of people going away and it won't be as expensive if you

:47:33.:47:37.

go abroad. Once you get there. Overall cost, with the weaker pound,

:47:38.:47:42.

has made things more expensive automatically to go abroad, but it

:47:43.:47:45.

has helped the domestic market as well. People this weekend travelling

:47:46.:47:50.

around the UK and not leaving. Good morning.

:47:51.:47:50.

An impressive 6.6 million of us are set to have a trip away over

:47:51.:47:54.

I'll be off to the seaside after the show.

:47:55.:48:00.

But it's a pretty big rise, according to tourism body Visit

:48:01.:48:03.

Over half a million more overnight stays than last year.

:48:04.:48:06.

And bookings for tourists coming to the UK from now until the summer

:48:07.:48:10.

Anthony Pickles is from Visit Britain and joins me now.

:48:11.:48:18.

Morning. Is it fundamentally a weaker pound being great for the UK

:48:19.:48:27.

tourism market? What we are seeing at the moment is a window of

:48:28.:48:31.

opportunity with great tourism products across the UK which is

:48:32.:48:35.

improving all of the time alongside the weaker currency and better value

:48:36.:48:41.

abroad. What we have to do is make sure people overseas understand that

:48:42.:48:46.

we have got - that we are better value, the best value in 11 years or

:48:47.:48:51.

more, so if I say to you, what is the exchange rate with Canada, you

:48:52.:48:54.

may have a vague idea as the business correspondent, maybe not.

:48:55.:48:58.

Likewise, people overseas don't know that, so we have a job working

:48:59.:49:02.

overseas to get their message across that we are great value for money.

:49:03.:49:06.

Would you say this is a great opportunity but we are not really

:49:07.:49:12.

cashing in on it? We have to do more because, who knows, currencies

:49:13.:49:14.

fluctuate hugely right across the world and, as I said, we have a

:49:15.:49:19.

great window, so we have to cash in. Two bank holiday is close to each

:49:20.:49:25.

other, is it good for the B, hotels, tourist places in the UK, or

:49:26.:49:30.

does it mean people go away for one of them? You said 6 million of us

:49:31.:49:35.

are getting away overnight this weekend and I am sure people will be

:49:36.:49:40.

taking the opportunity to go away this Easter and take time off, so

:49:41.:49:44.

close to the May holiday, so we have heard more people are going away,

:49:45.:49:48.

something like one third waiting to see what the weather is like, so

:49:49.:49:52.

let's hope the weather forecast and the sunshine pushes people to take a

:49:53.:49:56.

trip away. We have been talking a lot about Hull this morning, so what

:49:57.:50:03.

can we learn about the idea of focusing on one particular area as a

:50:04.:50:07.

place for culture and to go and spend time? So, Hull is the City of

:50:08.:50:13.

Culture and what is happening is, with a full year of activity,

:50:14.:50:18.

whether it is cultural, art, people have heard more about Hull and they

:50:19.:50:22.

are going there. And from the organisers themselves, more and more

:50:23.:50:25.

people are going to see what is going on. And having the City of

:50:26.:50:29.

Culture is an opportunity to get people to places they might not

:50:30.:50:34.

visit. Not every city can have that. That is true. It works for Hull at

:50:35.:50:39.

obviously it is not straightforward for every single market across the

:50:40.:50:41.

UK. Thank you very much indeed. If you are looking for somewhere

:50:42.:50:49.

that you haven't gone too, there is plenty happening this weekend in

:50:50.:50:54.

Hull. Yes, indeed, here is a live camera now.

:50:55.:50:54.

Our Arts correspondent Colin Paterson is there for us this

:50:55.:50:57.

daffodils that you can see if you're going to Hull. A brand-new addition

:50:58.:51:10.

to the City of Culture, just in time for Easter, with a giant Lego

:51:11.:51:15.

watering can as well. 1700 Lego daffodils. It is all part of the

:51:16.:51:21.

idea of getting the exhibits to the City of Culture into the centre of

:51:22.:51:26.

Hull. This is King Edward Square. The reason we have come to Hull is

:51:27.:51:32.

this week they went 100 days as City of Culture, so we thought it was

:51:33.:51:36.

time for Breakfast to catch up with what was going on in the city, and I

:51:37.:51:38.

ended up in some unusual places. The place would have

:51:39.:51:40.

spelt of carpet, overalls Hull, City of Culture,

:51:41.:51:43.

where even taxis have been And it raises up,

:51:44.:51:47.

by pumping a handle. For the next three months,

:51:48.:51:55.

Wayne Jackson is presenting a show to an audience

:51:56.:52:00.

of six in the back It is combining my

:52:01.:52:02.

son's work and mine. Had you ever done

:52:03.:52:21.

anything arty before? Venues have been popping

:52:22.:52:25.

up all over the city. This week's opening, Flood: A State

:52:26.:52:37.

of the Nation Parable, performed on a floating stage

:52:38.:52:39.

in the middle of a residential area. These people in their flats have

:52:40.:52:42.

been looking on us for six weeks. We have been chatting to them,

:52:43.:52:46.

we have been to local primary schools, to sing a song in the play,

:52:47.:52:50.

we have a little boy called Jim who comes every date on his way

:52:51.:52:54.

from school and asked And who should arrive at that moment

:52:55.:52:57.

but Jim for his daily inspection, proudly sharing the title the crew

:52:58.:53:02.

have bestowed on him. It's a small example of how people

:53:03.:53:04.

of all ages have been getting involved since Hull's year

:53:05.:53:15.

in the spotlight began on January the first, with a musical

:53:16.:53:18.

firework display. Other highlights so far have

:53:19.:53:21.

included the visit of enormous sculpture the Blade

:53:22.:53:26.

and the Humber Bridge being given a musical accompaniment

:53:27.:53:31.

by Opera North. It has been a magical start

:53:32.:53:32.

to the year with hundreds of thousands of residents getting

:53:33.:53:35.

involved and people from all over coming

:53:36.:53:38.

to experience Hull. Those who have lived in Hull

:53:39.:53:39.

all their lives have And there is still eight

:53:40.:53:42.

and a half months to go. We are hearing about how their has

:53:43.:54:00.

been an attempt to get people who live in Hull to get involved and

:54:01.:54:04.

here is Trevor and Maggie. What made you want to get involved in the City

:54:05.:54:08.

of Culture Wasilla it is an historic event for Hull and I am so proud of

:54:09.:54:16.

the city. Maggie, what else have they got you doing, apart from

:54:17.:54:20.

wearing light blue? Talking to people, encouraging people to look

:54:21.:54:23.

and see what we have got here as well as enjoying all of the extra

:54:24.:54:27.

bits outcome as well, and the daffodils. What kind of things when

:54:28.:54:30.

people come to ask questions, what are they wanting to know about?

:54:31.:54:36.

Things like where does this come from, what does this mean, what do

:54:37.:54:40.

you think it is, is it really art, like when we had the Bla, it opened

:54:41.:54:47.

a lot of discussion with people -- Blade. We were talking with the

:54:48.:54:51.

people who work coming to see what's going on, and they were sharing

:54:52.:54:56.

their views with us. Just briefly, tell me about this huge mural, what

:54:57.:55:04.

is it? 1 million pieces of glass reflecting Hull's maritime history

:55:05.:55:07.

from someone called Alan Boyce. Thank you. Phil Batty from Hull

:55:08.:55:16.

2017. Who is paying for this? We have 80 partners who have brought it

:55:17.:55:20.

together and what is great is it is the people behind the city that has

:55:21.:55:24.

made it possible, that energy that has brought it together. Just

:55:25.:55:29.

briefly, more than 250 days to go, what are the highlights? I am

:55:30.:55:35.

looking forward to the opening of Skin and the house of King and

:55:36.:55:40.

Queens as part of LGBT 50. If you are looking for somewhere to go,

:55:41.:55:44.

Hull is an option and there is just time for me to go and attend to the

:55:45.:55:48.

daffodils. Oh, me as an eight-year-old would have loved it.

:55:49.:55:51.

I think the grown-up Colin quite likes it as well! Like something

:55:52.:55:56.

from a storybook. It is a Lego watering can and daffodils or.

:55:57.:56:00.

Someone has spent a lot of time doing that. Much more

:56:01.:56:05.

If you'd like to know more about Hull, you can watch Britain's

:56:06.:56:08.

UK City of Culture on the BBC News Channel today at

:56:09.:56:11.

coming up, we are talking about bringing your pets to work and some

:56:12.:56:21.

of you have sent your pictures. Here is Midge the greyhound, oh, look, in

:56:22.:56:27.

Sheffield. Thank you for sending these in, this is Jack who goes to

:56:28.:56:34.

the British army offers. This is in Germany. And as you can see, he has

:56:35.:56:39.

designed chair, a special chair. Archie goes to school in Blackpool

:56:40.:56:43.

every day and he has helped to bring down the stress levels according to

:56:44.:56:51.

make. -- Meg. Look at his face. And Lottie demands lots of cuddles as

:56:52.:56:55.

part of the team. That was a picture sent in by Joe. So, it works for a

:56:56.:57:01.

lot of people. There is something about a wonky ear that is so cute.

:57:02.:57:04.

More on the programme, indeed we will have a dog on the sofa to see

:57:05.:57:09.

if it brings a good vibe. I think that

:57:10.:57:09.

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

:57:10.:00:29.

This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:00:30.:00:39.

America drops what's known as the mother of all bombs

:00:40.:00:41.

on so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, reportedly

:00:42.:00:43.

Seen here in tests, it's the largest non-nuclear device the US has used

:00:44.:00:47.

in conflict and targeted a network of caves and tunnels.

:00:48.:00:52.

We are so proud of our military. And it was another successful event.

:00:53.:01:09.

Good morning, it's Friday 14th April.

:01:10.:01:13.

Also this morning: Unions representing half a million teachers

:01:14.:01:18.

claim schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years

:01:19.:01:21.

even though the Government says it's spending a record amount.

:01:22.:01:27.

Never mind the search for life on Mars, NASA says one of Saturn's

:01:28.:01:30.

moons may now be the single best place to look for life beyond earth.

:01:31.:01:37.

Good morning from inside the Crucible they'll be holding a

:01:38.:01:46.

celebration to celebrate four decades later with players past and

:01:47.:01:49.

present ahead of the main competition which starts tomorrow. I

:01:50.:01:53.

will be speaking to the world champion Mark Selby.

:01:54.:01:57.

It might seem like a dog's life spending your day in the office.

:01:58.:02:00.

We'll discuss why more companies are encouraging people

:02:01.:02:02.

Good morning. Hopefully the sunshine will arrive on cue when you need it

:02:03.:02:10.

this morning. It's a weekend full of weather variety, some cloudier and

:02:11.:02:18.

cool moments. Today one of those cloudy days and rain. I will have a

:02:19.:02:20.

forecast in 15 minutes. It's being reported 36 members of

:02:21.:02:33.

so-called Islamic State have been killed after the United States

:02:34.:02:37.

dropped the biggest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat in

:02:38.:02:44.

Afghanistan. The operation to destroy a series of

:02:45.:02:48.

underground caves in a remote region of eastern Afghanistan has been

:02:49.:02:50.

described as a very successful mission.

:02:51.:03:00.

a Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or as it is more commonly known,

:03:01.:03:03.

The largest non-nuclear weapon ever deployed.

:03:04.:03:05.

The target - so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan.

:03:06.:03:07.

We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used

:03:08.:03:10.

to move around freely, making it easier for them to target

:03:11.:03:13.

US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area.

:03:14.:03:16.

It is turning out to be a busy time for the commander-in-chief.

:03:17.:03:20.

We are so proud of our military, and it was another successful event.

:03:21.:03:24.

The tunnels and caves that were used by the Taliban over 15 years ago

:03:25.:03:28.

This bomb was dropped on a complex tunnel network

:03:29.:03:34.

in Nangarhar Province, close to the Pakistan border,

:03:35.:03:38.

where a member of US special forces was killed last week.

:03:39.:03:41.

But the actions brought a furious tweet from Afghanistan's former

:03:42.:03:45.

It is not just the dropping of a massive bomb on Afghanistan.

:03:46.:03:58.

In just over a week, President Trump has ordered

:03:59.:04:01.

the missile strike on Syria, a naval battle group to head

:04:02.:04:04.

to the Korean Peninsula, and he has restated his commitment to Nato.

:04:05.:04:07.

Some of Donald Trump's supporters are asking, whatever happened

:04:08.:04:09.

to the isolationist, America-first President

:04:10.:04:10.

Unions representing half a million teachers say schools in England

:04:11.:04:25.

are facing the worst real term cuts for 20 years.

:04:26.:04:30.

The NUT and NASUWT will discuss what they say is a crisis in funding

:04:31.:04:33.

when they meet today at their Easter conferences.

:04:34.:04:35.

But the Government says ?40 billion is being spent on schools this year,

:04:36.:04:38.

Our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves reports.

:04:39.:04:43.

St Martin's School in Essex is a good school.

:04:44.:04:49.

But even here, it has become increasingly difficult to recruit

:04:50.:04:54.

staff, particularly in specialist subjects.

:04:55.:04:55.

At one stage, they had a science teacher vacancy for more

:04:56.:04:58.

But there are also shortages in maths and modern languages.

:04:59.:05:01.

I look at the pool of people that are teaching in those areas,

:05:02.:05:07.

and the number of people that are due to retire over the next ten

:05:08.:05:10.

years, and also the number of people that are coming in that aren't

:05:11.:05:13.

actually a specialist in the subject area that they're teaching,

:05:14.:05:15.

and I think that this is really the thin end of the wedge.

:05:16.:05:19.

Teachers are gathering for their conferences at a time

:05:20.:05:21.

There have been widespread protests from parents and schools who say,

:05:22.:05:27.

without more money, class sizes will go up and teaching posts

:05:28.:05:30.

The Government points out ?40 billion is being spent on schools

:05:31.:05:34.

this year, the highest cash figure ever.

:05:35.:05:38.

But teachers say that hasn't taken into account rising costs,

:05:39.:05:41.

like pay, pensions, and the running costs of schools.

:05:42.:05:43.

The funding pressure is also beginning to hit parents,

:05:44.:05:46.

something of a concern to the unions.

:05:47.:05:51.

Half of parents are saying they're making at least one financial

:05:52.:05:55.

contribution to the school's funds, in order to "enhance resources",

:05:56.:05:57.

whatever that means, at school level.

:05:58.:06:01.

And many parents are finding that even the cost of school uniform

:06:02.:06:04.

is something which they can no longer afford.

:06:05.:06:06.

There is also much disquiet about Government plans to introduce

:06:07.:06:10.

Teachers argue money set aside for them would be better spent

:06:11.:06:16.

However, the Government says this new wave of grammars

:06:17.:06:19.

would benefit less-well-off families.

:06:20.:06:25.

Foreign ministers from Syria and Iran are holding talks

:06:26.:06:28.

with their Russian counterpart in Moscow today.

:06:29.:06:29.

It comes a day after the Syrian leader denied using chemical weapons

:06:30.:06:34.

President Assad said evidence had been fabricated to give

:06:35.:06:43.

the US an excuse to attack a Syrian Government airfield.

:06:44.:06:45.

The lawyer of a man who suffered a broken nose and lost two teeth

:06:46.:06:48.

when he was dragged off a plane in Chicago says it's likely

:06:49.:06:51.

he will take legal action against United Airlines.

:06:52.:06:53.

Several passengers filmed Dr David Dao being forced off

:06:54.:06:55.

the flight, bloodied and injured by Chicago aviation police

:06:56.:06:58.

after he'd refused to leave the overbooked flight.

:06:59.:07:07.

At a press conference Mr Dao's daughter said it's been a difficult

:07:08.:07:09.

What happened to my Dad should have never happened to any human being,

:07:10.:07:15.

We were horrified, and shocked and sickened, to learn what had

:07:16.:07:26.

happened to him, and to see what had happened to him.

:07:27.:07:31.

A future Labour Government says it would bring in a law preventing

:07:32.:07:34.

More than 1,000 local branches closed in the UK

:07:35.:07:39.

Labour says lending to small businesses decreases

:07:40.:07:44.

in areas where banks close, but the Conservatives said

:07:45.:07:47.

their support for small businesses, including start-up loans,

:07:48.:07:50.

A clean-up operation is under way in New Zealand after a powerful

:07:51.:07:59.

Cyclone Cook was expected to be the worst storm

:08:00.:08:02.

Hawke's Bay on the east coast was worst hit with hundreds

:08:03.:08:09.

of families forced from their homes, road closures and

:08:10.:08:12.

The accommodation booking service Airbnb is improving the security

:08:13.:08:15.

of its app and website after a BBC investigation found people's homes

:08:16.:08:18.

had been burgled by criminals using stolen accounts.

:08:19.:08:25.

The scammers changed some personal details and used

:08:26.:08:26.

Airbnb said it had already been working on the changes.

:08:27.:08:36.

It's expected to be one of the busiest days on the roads

:08:37.:08:39.

today with around 20 million car journeys expected over

:08:40.:08:41.

Millions more will be heading abroad as they make the most of two bank

:08:42.:08:50.

Catrina Renton is in east London this morning with the latest.

:08:51.:08:55.

It looks really nice and quiet where you are at the moment but it's not

:08:56.:09:02.

expected to stay that bay, is it? That's it, at the moment it's a good

:09:03.:09:09.

time to get away. As you said, over 20 million car journeys expected

:09:10.:09:13.

over this weekend and while it's a good time to go now, the company

:09:14.:09:21.

that's been compiling the data for us say that between 10 and two is

:09:22.:09:26.

when the pinch points are going to be, they're advising to get away or

:09:27.:09:29.

wait until after They're saying the journeys could

:09:30.:09:38.

double in time on major motorways. Many of these people are also going

:09:39.:09:42.

to be going to airports, airports are expected to be very busy this

:09:43.:09:47.

weekend. Today the busiest day over the weekend with over two million

:09:48.:09:52.

people going overseas and the favourite destination there being

:09:53.:09:56.

Spain. Other things, the Network Rail, are taking the opportunity

:09:57.:10:00.

because over bank holiday weekends they tend to be quieter than normal,

:10:01.:10:04.

to get work done, so engineering projects on around 200 routes,

:10:05.:10:10.

trains to London, to Manchester, to Bath, Edinburgh and Glasgow, they'll

:10:11.:10:13.

be amongst those affected and you should check with the operator

:10:14.:10:17.

before you start your journey. If you are looking for a wee break and

:10:18.:10:21.

relaxing drive, Sunday is the day for that because traffic will be

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down on Easter Sunday. If you want to find out more about the local

:10:26.:10:30.

situation where you are watch our bulletins where you are and listen

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to BBC local radio. Thank you very much. We are going

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further afield next. It's 750 million miles from earth,

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but the American space agency NASA says one of Saturn's moons,

:10:44.:10:46.

known as Enceladus may now be the best place to look

:10:47.:10:49.

for life beyond earth. Samples of water erupting

:10:50.:10:53.

from the ice-covered moon's surface suggest it has all the conditions

:10:54.:10:56.

needed for life. The discovery was made by NASA's

:10:57.:10:58.

Cassini spacecraft which is coming to the end of a 13-year

:10:59.:11:00.

mission to Saturn. Our science editor David

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Shukman can explain. For over a decade Cassini has

:11:07.:11:15.

shared... A NASA video promoting a mission

:11:16.:11:22.

that keeps making astonishing A spacecraft called

:11:23.:11:24.

Cassini has focussed on one of Saturn's moons,

:11:25.:11:26.

Enceladus. Beneath its icy surface is a deep

:11:27.:11:30.

ocean and great jets of water blasting out of it contain

:11:31.:11:35.

ingredients needed for life. In fact, NASA scientists now say

:11:36.:11:37.

that on the floor of the ocean there may be hydrothermal vents

:11:38.:11:40.

like these on earth making hydrogen So conceivably this becomes one

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of the likeliest places on the solar We're joined now by astrophysicist

:11:45.:11:54.

Chris Copperwheat. Now, Chris, you can go to this

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planet and maybe live there as long as you can swim? Yes, it would be

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very wet, yeah. When we talk about life on planets in the solar system

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we always think of Mars and all of that, but these moons these icy

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moons in many ways are better candidates to live on, they have

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oceans, conditions underneath the ice is probably very much like at

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the bottom of our deepest oceans, on the ocean floor here. So, given the

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evidence we have just heard and what they've said, why wouldn't there be

:12:34.:12:36.

life there? Well, this is a good question. Everything seems to be in

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place. We have always known, it's been talked about in science fiction

:12:42.:12:45.

for decades these are possible sources for life, and now we are

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finally putting pieces in the puzzle. We have seen the evidence of

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the water and the complicating molecules and the key find something

:12:57.:13:00.

the hydrogen, which is the food source. We see a complicated

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structure of life, a huge diversity that feeds on the energy from this

:13:08.:13:11.

hydrogen reaction so everything is in place. The next step is going out

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there with the right equipment to look for the bio markers. What

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exactly does that mean, what exactly are they looking for? Well,

:13:23.:13:27.

ultimately, so, what we are talking about here is chemical reactions.

:13:28.:13:31.

The chemical processes that we know on earth supports life. The next

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step would be to search for the actual components, basic building

:13:38.:13:40.

blocks of life, the amino acids and that sort of stuff we know are

:13:41.:13:43.

required, so different equipment for that. There is an upcoming mission

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to, not the moon here, but one that is perhaps more famous, the moon of

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Jupiter, Europa. It's going to have a different set of equipment and a

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radar that can look under the ice and equipment that can analyse this

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water in more detail as it flies through. At that point do you get a

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definitive answer and we have found this chemical reaction and this

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means life? At some point it becomes incontrovertible. It feels like we

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are getting closer all the time. This is an exciting time. When this

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mission launched n the late 90s, when I was at school, and now we are

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at the end of its life and this is the Crowning achievement of the

:14:30.:14:33.

Cassini mission and when it was launched no one would have expected

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this sort of result, it was there to look at Sturn. -- at Saturn. My

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non-expert question of the day! Why do we always assume that life can

:14:49.:14:52.

only be formed according to the principles that have happened on

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earth? You are saying, we look for all the factors that happened on

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earth, it could be completely different, couldn't it? Why do we

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assume it has to be like it was here? You are right, yeah. This is

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it. It's like the old Star Trek thing, it's life, Jim, but not as we

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know it. It's easier to look for life as we know it, because we know

:15:14.:15:17.

we have one example, one data point where all the conditions, we know

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those conditions produce life. So, we have an entire universe to study.

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We are overwhelmed with data. A good place to start is to look at the

:15:28.:15:31.

place where we know the conditions can support life. But you are quite

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right, life as we don't know it could exist in any number of

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different environments. There is a new catch dz phrase, life as we

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don't know it! It is hard to know the things we

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don't know. What are your predictions for the weather?

:15:59.:16:03.

Fairly mixed to say the least, something for everyone. Some parts

:16:04.:16:10.

of the country are starting drier and bright, the sun was just picking

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through the cloud and Twickenham a short while ago, but grey skies for

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some this morning. For Good Friday, southern Scotland, Northern Ireland,

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North Wales and the North Midlands particularly cloudy. It turns dump

:16:25.:16:28.

around lunchtime across Northern Ireland and into the afternoon,

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north-west England and North and West Wales. Most staying dry south

:16:33.:16:37.

of that, cloud thin enough to allow sunshine now and then. Sunny spells

:16:38.:16:42.

in Scotland and Northern Ireland through the afternoon. Some showers

:16:43.:16:46.

here and there, particularly across the Highlands and Islands.

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Temperatures still down in single figures. North-west England, North

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and West Wales will be getting heavier and more persistent rain

:16:55.:16:58.

this afternoon, the hills in particular. Away from that, the odd

:16:59.:17:02.

spot of rain, much of south Wales, southern England, the Midlands and

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East Anglia staying dry through the day with some sunshine, it might

:17:07.:17:10.

feel a touch warmer than yesterday even in the breeze.

:17:11.:17:13.

The rain from northern England north and West Wales will push eastwards,

:17:14.:17:17.

giving some gardens are welcome sip rather than a drink of water. Not

:17:18.:17:22.

everyone can see that before the cloud and the showers gradually

:17:23.:17:26.

depart. Quite a chilly night, a touch of frost and some gardens in

:17:27.:17:32.

northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Some ice and

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showers in Scotland. Saturday will have sunny skies, a few showers but

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very isolated. You will be lucky to see them, unless you are in the

:17:44.:17:47.

north and west of Scotland, weather showers will be less frequent.

:17:48.:17:51.

Temperatures between nine and 14 degrees tomorrow but feeling cool in

:17:52.:17:55.

the breeze, nice enough in the sunshine. If you are in the Scottish

:17:56.:17:59.

valleys tomorrow, do not be fooled, it will feel more like winter in the

:18:00.:18:04.

mountain tops. Severe wind-chill and a little bit of snow. Into Sunday,

:18:05.:18:09.

back to the cloudy weather. Weather fronts pitching from the Atlantic.

:18:10.:18:15.

Northern Ireland, northern England and Wales and the Midlands and East

:18:16.:18:18.

Anglia and the south-east will have this weather front, which could

:18:19.:18:22.

produce rain. Sunshine in the south-western for the northern half

:18:23.:18:26.

of the country, feeling pleasant, as it will wake you have the sunshine

:18:27.:18:29.

and eight. There will be some showers through the east of the

:18:30.:18:34.

country, but dry and sunny moments to enjoy. With winds lighter,

:18:35.:18:38.

particularly in the West, feeling warmer. The best place to be this

:18:39.:18:42.

weekend, probably Spain and Portugal.

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Nice and sunny and warm. Oh, great! We have been talking about going

:18:50.:18:52.

abroad... But we are not going there! But maybe to cheer us up we

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could bring in a pet. There are around 8.5 million dogs in the UK

:19:08.:19:10.

and you might see them as part of the family. If you miss them when

:19:11.:19:14.

you are at work, why not take them in? Around one in ten businesses say

:19:15.:19:25.

they have the dog friendly policy. Susannah Streeter has been finding

:19:26.:19:27.

out if more should do the same. Brooke, Reggie, Max

:19:28.:19:29.

and Peggy are office buddies The Pets at Work scheme proved

:19:30.:19:31.

so popular that by the end of the year around 100 dogs passed

:19:32.:19:35.

an assessment to gain I think some people did wonder how

:19:36.:19:37.

many dogs would actually come into the office

:19:38.:19:41.

and whether we would have large numbers or packs

:19:42.:19:43.

of dogs roaming the office. The reality is on any given day

:19:44.:19:45.

we probably have between 20-25 dogs And in fact it is very rare to even

:19:46.:19:48.

hear a dog bark in the office. They are here if you want

:19:49.:19:55.

to find one to pet. Dog don't just relieve stress,

:19:56.:19:57.

they also help build What about the time

:19:58.:19:59.

when she needs to go to the loo? She starts to get up and paces

:20:00.:20:13.

around and looks at me. Have there been fallouts

:20:14.:20:16.

with other dogs? They love chasing each

:20:17.:20:31.

other around the park. So, just how easy it is it

:20:32.:20:34.

taking your pet into the workplace? Dow Jones on last

:20:35.:20:42.

night from the slide. Claire, if you hear some noises

:20:43.:20:55.

it is because we have a dog I am going to the studio

:20:56.:21:03.

now, down to make up. I am going to give

:21:04.:21:10.

you a little bit too. I might need to brush

:21:11.:21:12.

off a few hairs. Marna remained calmly inquisitive

:21:13.:21:16.

until she saw the cleaning trolley. Next, the BBC Studio, we meet

:21:17.:21:19.

Debra Conolly, a dog specialist. Some are quiet, some

:21:20.:21:30.

have the public in and out. You need to be sure your dog has

:21:31.:21:36.

the right temperament and recognise the signs your dog

:21:37.:21:39.

might be struggling. And make sure the other people

:21:40.:21:44.

in the office have checked out to be sure they are not afraid or allergic

:21:45.:21:47.

and take a bag of goodies Interview over, it is lunchtime,

:21:48.:21:50.

and Marna can spend it with me. And after her performance

:21:51.:21:56.

in the editorial meeting, I think she deserves a treat,

:21:57.:21:58.

don't you, Marna? Here with us now is Phil Campbell,

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a dog behaviourist and trainer, You are a dog trainer, so your dog

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Oscar has been accurately behaved. He has been to see us once before

:22:21.:22:25.

this morning. ... Has been immaculately behaved. But not all

:22:26.:22:30.

dogs would be as common as environment? No. You had to pick and

:22:31.:22:35.

choose your animal, your dog. Oscar is a prime example of the type of

:22:36.:22:39.

dog you can take to work, he is relaxed and pretty good in almost

:22:40.:22:43.

any environment. If you have a young dog you have to T Eaves them in, if

:22:44.:22:48.

you get a rescue dog, obviously let the dog settle in a little bit

:22:49.:22:54.

first, take the dog into work for short periods, see if it takes to

:22:55.:22:59.

the environments, being approached by people. Noises, some dogs do not

:23:00.:23:04.

cope well with noises. Oscar does not cope very well with gruff men's

:23:05.:23:09.

voices, shouting. If I am watching sport on TV, I accept the room. The

:23:10.:23:16.

commentary? No, me shouting at the television! I might raise my voice

:23:17.:23:20.

and he will slowly toddle off into the kitchen. Oh, thanks, Oscar. It

:23:21.:23:28.

is lovely being at work and everything but I am completely

:23:29.:23:31.

distracted. I had loads of clever questions for you but now all I can

:23:32.:23:37.

think about is how cute Oscar is. That is a potential obstacle with

:23:38.:23:41.

the dog in the workplace. And not everyone is fond of dogs. There are

:23:42.:23:48.

people who plainly just don't like dogs. People are allergic, some

:23:49.:23:54.

people are frightened. It does not suit everybody. It is a cultural

:23:55.:23:58.

thing, some people don't like dogs around, it is not for everybody. You

:23:59.:24:03.

have to way that up, put a question out there, as the boss. And you need

:24:04.:24:08.

the type of job where at a certain time of day you can say I need to

:24:09.:24:12.

walk the dog around the block, not everybody can do that. The gob if

:24:13.:24:24.

you have a dog in the office and you decide you had to get paperwork from

:24:25.:24:26.

the office next door and the dog starts creating and howling, maybe

:24:27.:24:29.

that environment is not for the dog. Taking your dog to work should not

:24:30.:24:32.

be a fix for separation anxiety. Is there anything you can suggest

:24:33.:24:35.

intensive training, what do you need to be able to get them to do?

:24:36.:24:42.

Socialisation is truly important for any dog, whether it is a young dog

:24:43.:24:47.

or a rescue dog. Socialisation in many different environments, people,

:24:48.:24:54.

noises, if there is a telephone ringing in an office, I had a case

:24:55.:25:01.

where the dog starts howling and barking when the telephone goes.

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That would be bad if you worked in a call centre! Stay with us for a

:25:08.:25:12.

second. Does Oscar watch television? From a distance, he is not big on

:25:13.:25:17.

it. TV programmes with animals. Late-season dog pictures. Morris is

:25:18.:25:24.

a big favourite. David sent in this picture. Gizmo goes to the office

:25:25.:25:31.

and even has his own security pass. Very cool. Dawn's dog keeps everyone

:25:32.:25:41.

entertained at work. And Caroline's puppy has lifted the office mood,

:25:42.:25:46.

they love taking it in turns to go for walking breaks. When I brought

:25:47.:25:51.

my own pet into work, there was a little bit of a tussle in the office

:25:52.:25:54.

at about who would take her for work. Quite a bit of competition.

:25:55.:26:01.

If you have a very big dog it is necessarily an issue. Most of those

:26:02.:26:06.

dogs are small. If you have a great Dane... It is an issue? It is

:26:07.:26:13.

doable. You had to be in a situation where the office is big enough and

:26:14.:26:17.

that the dog has a place where it can go to blacks. Is it fair to the

:26:18.:26:22.

dog? If you're going to take your dog to the office, take it for a dam

:26:23.:26:30.

good work... Walk in the morning. You can fill it full of high-protein

:26:31.:26:34.

foods, met it out in the garden for five minutes and then expected will

:26:35.:26:39.

chill out all day. -- you cannot fill it full of high-protein food.

:26:40.:26:44.

Oscar was very well-behaved, you knew that would happen. He is

:26:45.:26:48.

gorgeous and very calm. Is it important that the dog is of that

:26:49.:26:55.

sort of nature? We took on Oscar as one-year-old, we worked certain

:26:56.:27:00.

obedience exercises. The stay exercises teach the dog 's

:27:01.:27:04.

self-control. It is all well and good getting him to do the things in

:27:05.:27:08.

the kitchen for a bowl of food, can you do it in the park when you are

:27:09.:27:14.

20 metres away and another dog comes. My job is to get Sally back

:27:15.:27:19.

in the room. Speaking of distractions. Sally: are we at

:27:20.:27:27.

work?! Lovely to meet you and thank you, Oscar.

:27:28.:27:29.

Time for the news, travel and weather where you are.

:27:30.:30:56.

Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather.

:30:57.:31:01.

Hello this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

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It is thought that 35 Islamic state fighters were killed when a US bomb

:31:04.:31:07.

was dropped on a tunnel complex in Eastern Afghanistan yesterday.

:31:08.:31:15.

It was the biggest non-nuclear bomb to be used in conflict. The former

:31:16.:31:24.

Afghan President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai condemned the action as

:31:25.:31:29.

inhuman. We can speak now to our reporter Harun Najafizada. Thank you

:31:30.:31:36.

for your time this morning. What is the latest information you have

:31:37.:31:42.

about the strike? Well, we know that the huge bomb was

:31:43.:31:52.

dropped between two Mountains in a valley in eastern Kandahar province

:31:53.:32:00.

close to the Pakistan border were IS fighters had carved their hideouts.

:32:01.:32:04.

We know from the Afghan army that between 40 and 70 four militants

:32:05.:32:10.

were in the area when the strike took place. The Afghan government

:32:11.:32:17.

confirmed 36 militants have been killed and because the area was were

:32:18.:32:24.

civilians left there is no collateral damage or casualties on

:32:25.:32:29.

the civilian side. There has been criticism from some

:32:30.:32:33.

quarters about the use of the bomb. It is important in terms of its

:32:34.:32:36.

effect but politically it is a statement of sorts. Politically it

:32:37.:32:45.

has divided Afghan society, especially that includes being

:32:46.:32:47.

tested for the first time in Afghanistan. The former President

:32:48.:32:55.

Hamid Karzai has called it inhuman and an unnecessary use of a heavy

:32:56.:33:01.

weapon against Afghan territory without mentioning actually IS

:33:02.:33:07.

militants' activity in that area. But the Afghan government in general

:33:08.:33:13.

including the presidential palace have said it was a full coordination

:33:14.:33:18.

with Afghan forces and that was done to protect the Afghan army and

:33:19.:33:26.

special forces that are involved in a week-long operation against IS in

:33:27.:33:30.

that area. They also say that because that area was, in a way,

:33:31.:33:36.

full of IED and roadside bombs, that they could not get into fight Isis

:33:37.:33:43.

face to face. They asked for US air support, and as a result of that

:33:44.:33:49.

this happened. Thank you very much, Harun Najafizada, thank you. One or

:33:50.:33:55.

two problems on the line so apologies for that.

:33:56.:33:55.

In other news. Unions representing 500,000 teachers

:33:56.:33:57.

say schools in England are facing the worst

:33:58.:34:02.

real-term cuts for 20 years. The NUT and NASUWT will discuss

:34:03.:34:04.

what they say is a crisis in funding when they meet today at their Easter

:34:05.:34:08.

Conferences. But the Government says

:34:09.:34:10.

?40 billion is being spent on schools this year -

:34:11.:34:12.

the highest cash figure ever. Unions say schools staff

:34:13.:34:14.

shortages are increasing and there is a reduction

:34:15.:34:16.

in vocational subjects. Foreign ministers from Syria

:34:17.:34:21.

and Iran are holding talks with their Russian counterpart

:34:22.:34:23.

in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian

:34:24.:34:26.

leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had

:34:27.:34:29.

been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack

:34:30.:34:35.

a Syrian government airfield. Nigeria says it's actively

:34:36.:34:38.

negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to free

:34:39.:34:42.

the Chibok schoolgirls who were More than 270 students were seized

:34:43.:34:44.

from their dormitories and almost 200 of the girls are still

:34:45.:34:52.

being held in captivity. Demonstrators will hold events later

:34:53.:34:57.

today in the capital, Abuja, and in Lagos

:34:58.:34:59.

to mark the anniversary. A future Labour government says it

:35:00.:35:01.

would bring in a law preventing More than 1000 local

:35:02.:35:04.

branches closed in the UK Labour says lending to small

:35:05.:35:10.

businesses decreases in areas where banks close,

:35:11.:35:14.

but the Conservatives said their support for small businesses,

:35:15.:35:17.

including start-up loans had It's one of the busiest travel

:35:18.:35:20.

weekends of the year, Around 20 million car

:35:21.:35:26.

journeys will be made on the UK's roads by Monday,

:35:27.:35:31.

with trips on major routes expected The M25, M6 and M5 are expected

:35:32.:35:34.

to be worst affected. Up to 2 million are expected to fly

:35:35.:35:42.

away from the gridlock for a trip overseas,

:35:43.:35:45.

with Spain being A clean up operation is underway

:35:46.:35:47.

in New Zealand after a powerful Nasa says one of Saturn's moons -

:35:48.:36:06.

known as Enceladus - may now be the best place to look

:36:07.:36:09.

for life beyond Earth. Samples of the waters erupting

:36:10.:36:12.

from the moon's surface suggest it has all the conditions

:36:13.:36:17.

needed for life. The discovery was made

:36:18.:36:19.

through Nasa's Cassini probe which has been exploring

:36:20.:36:21.

Saturn since 2004. Life in water is what we were saying

:36:22.:36:25.

earlier when we had our expert in. Possibly, we will see.

:36:26.:36:36.

Who knows? 8:36am. Hopefully Mike will get on better than he did

:36:37.:36:43.

earlier. He is at the Crucible in Sheffield ahead of the World Snooker

:36:44.:36:45.

Championship. Do you really think I will play

:36:46.:36:49.

against this man, the world number one, Mark Selby. We played Barry

:36:50.:36:54.

Hearn earlier and we parted two balls between us, it was a

:36:55.:36:59.

qualifying match in a way. We lost Mike's picture for a moment.

:37:00.:37:06.

Can we go back? We lost you for a moment. It looked lovely and green

:37:07.:37:09.

and then it went black. At least it went green like the

:37:10.:37:13.

snooker table. Did you hear anything at all? I will start again. What I

:37:14.:37:18.

said is they would not let me near a ball now which I wouldn't want to do

:37:19.:37:22.

because I'm with the world champion, world number one, Mark Selby. Good

:37:23.:37:27.

morning. I played Barry Hearn and hardly potted a ball earlier. We are

:37:28.:37:32.

in the arena here where you won your second world title and there is the

:37:33.:37:37.

trophy, wanting to get your hands on it again?

:37:38.:37:40.

Yes, this year will be the hardest to be world champion. There is a lot

:37:41.:37:44.

of players playing at the top of their game, Judd Trump, Ronnie

:37:45.:37:46.

O'Sullivan, it will be tough but I will be in there fighting. We will

:37:47.:37:52.

talk to you later. Let me tell you about the table, it is like the

:37:53.:37:56.

grass at Wimbledon, it must be at the right temperature so there is a

:37:57.:38:00.

little thing to warm the slate to be at all optimum temperature when they

:38:01.:38:06.

come to play. Fascinating information about the table.

:38:07.:38:08.

Elsewhere in sport, it was a frustrating night

:38:09.:38:10.

for Manchester United as they dominated the first leg

:38:11.:38:13.

of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with Anderlecht but could only draw.

:38:14.:38:16.

You would still think they would be favourites to go through.

:38:17.:38:21.

Jose Mourinho's side went ahead before the break thanks to this goal

:38:22.:38:24.

from Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but they missed some good chances

:38:25.:38:26.

to extend their lead and five minutes from time Leander Dendoncker

:38:27.:38:29.

The second leg is at Old Trafford next week.

:38:30.:38:32.

If you arrive into a situation where mathematically it is not

:38:33.:38:35.

possible, top four, then easy decision.

:38:36.:38:39.

Rest them, and go with them in the Europa League,

:38:40.:38:42.

But at this moment, we are in a position where we have

:38:43.:38:47.

If we win both matches we are direct into the top four.

:38:48.:38:53.

After Elinor Barker won silver in the women's race on Wednesday,

:38:54.:38:59.

Chris Latham won bronze in the men's scratch race at the cycling Track

:39:00.:39:02.

It's his first international medal as a senior rider

:39:03.:39:09.

and he could win another - he rides in the omnium tomorrow.

:39:10.:39:11.

In Superleague, Warrington are now unbeaten in three matches

:39:12.:39:15.

as they try to recover from their terrible

:39:16.:39:18.

They ran in three tries against bottom club Widnes -

:39:19.:39:23.

the second from Jack Hughes - as they won 19-10.

:39:24.:39:26.

Back in the Crucible talking about the snooker this is the World

:39:27.:39:32.

Championship Trophy first handed out in 1927, so it is 90 years old.

:39:33.:39:37.

There are winners from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales,

:39:38.:39:40.

Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia but not yet a Chinese

:39:41.:39:45.

name. That could soon change, Ding Junhui played Mark Selby in the

:39:46.:39:48.

final last year and lost but they say China could be the next

:39:49.:39:50.

superpower of World Snooker. In a nation of over 1.3

:39:51.:39:57.

billion people, one man Ding Junhui is treated

:39:58.:40:00.

like a movie or pop star. He is one of the most recognised

:40:01.:40:08.

faces across the whole of Asia, because this is the man who sparked

:40:09.:40:13.

a Chinese snooker revolution. To escape such constant attention,

:40:14.:40:16.

he moved to Sheffield, home of the World Championship,

:40:17.:40:18.

where he can lead a relatively I met him this week for a frame

:40:19.:40:21.

at the city's Star Academy, where his private practice room

:40:22.:40:29.

is a world away from all the attention, the five million

:40:30.:40:32.

followers on social media, and the 210 million who watched his

:40:33.:40:35.

run to the final last year The little kids come

:40:36.:40:38.

and ask me how to be like you, and I am very pleased

:40:39.:40:54.

to answer the questions. So yes, I know it is -

:40:55.:40:56.

how boring when you practise. He is certainly not alone

:40:57.:40:59.

anymore in Sheffield. Along with fellow star Marco Fu,

:41:00.:41:06.

they set the trend. Thanks to the likes of Ding

:41:07.:41:10.

and Marco Fu, there is now a steady stream of players coming to dedicate

:41:11.:41:13.

themselves to training, at these academies specially

:41:14.:41:15.

for Chinese players. Also a good Chinese community,

:41:16.:41:21.

lots of Chinese restaurants. It has become a mecca

:41:22.:41:35.

for Chinese snooker players. It is easy to see why China

:41:36.:41:39.

is the new force in snooker. Massive investment in facilities

:41:40.:41:45.

back home, and 70 million people now In five years, I think Chinese

:41:46.:41:48.

players will take over, as the standards are very high

:41:49.:41:55.

at the moment, but they can only Ding's success is

:41:56.:41:58.

rubbing off on so many. He has already won the UK

:41:59.:42:05.

Championship and the Masters, but ever since he started playing

:42:06.:42:19.

pool in China, aged eight, the world On TV I see Steve Davis,

:42:20.:42:22.

they are all legends in snooker. I think, I want to win these

:42:23.:42:30.

titles when I grow up. And if you want the documentary

:42:31.:42:39.

about Ding Junhui, it's now on the BBC iPlayer,

:42:40.:42:42.

and it's called: Enter the Dragon:

:42:43.:42:44.

China's Snooker Star. Back here with Mark Selby, could you

:42:45.:42:53.

see a time when the Chinese really dominate? Obviously you will try and

:42:54.:42:57.

stop them but it is a real factor. I think so. In a few years' time they

:42:58.:43:01.

will be four or five Chinese players in the top 16. I think Ding Junhui

:43:02.:43:06.

will win the championship at some point, in my opinion I thought he

:43:07.:43:09.

would have won it before now but there is lots of expectation from

:43:10.:43:13.

China on him, such a big country and a lot of weight on his soldiers,

:43:14.:43:18.

they have been talking about him winning for many years. It is great

:43:19.:43:22.

for the sport. Of course, I played him for the first time in China when

:43:23.:43:29.

14 and he was a wild card and he was some player and he has turned out to

:43:30.:43:34.

be. Watching on telly, what strikes me is how close you are to the fans.

:43:35.:43:38.

How does it feel when they are breathing down your neck so close,

:43:39.:43:42.

it is such an intimate arena. The more you come here you get used to

:43:43.:43:46.

it but the first time I came I was sat in my seat playing John Higgins

:43:47.:43:50.

looking around and for the first three or four frames I was looking

:43:51.:43:53.

around admiring the building and how close the crowd are. If you hit a

:43:54.:44:01.

bad shot you can hear somebody grumbling behind you. The qualifier

:44:02.:44:08.

who got through to play you in the first round tomorrow Fergal O'Brien

:44:09.:44:11.

was involved in the longest ever frame, two hours and three minutes.

:44:12.:44:17.

Yes, unreal. Fergal is a great player, great competitor, similar to

:44:18.:44:20.

myself, you have to scrape him off the table, he's never beaten until

:44:21.:44:24.

the final ball is potted so it will be a tough match. You can see how

:44:25.:44:28.

Mark got on on social media on our Twitter paid, -- Twitter page. And

:44:29.:44:38.

how I got on. It is on the red button, BBC sport website, with Mark

:44:39.:44:42.

and former champions walking down the green carpet at 5pm and

:44:43.:44:47.

celebrations start at 6pm for an hour and a half life on the red but.

:44:48.:44:54.

Your reports have been brilliant, thank you, Mike. The snooker has

:44:55.:45:00.

been awful. We are so mean! It is true. Just coming up to

:45:01.:45:02.

8:45am. Over to Matt for the bank holiday

:45:03.:45:04.

weather. Let's start with the weather

:45:05.:45:15.

Watchers, this is the kind of bank holiday you want to see. Glorious

:45:16.:45:21.

view here. But this is in a minority this morning. Much more waking up to

:45:22.:45:27.

seems like this one up the road in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. One of

:45:28.:45:30.

the cloudy days of the weekend but there are outbreaks in the cloud in

:45:31.:45:34.

the south, not bad on the south coast. Some sunshine in Scotland but

:45:35.:45:40.

in between reigning Northern England, Northern Ireland, North

:45:41.:45:43.

Wales. Wetter around lunchtime for Northern Ireland and north-west

:45:44.:45:46.

England and the north and west Wales. Northern Ireland brightens up

:45:47.:45:49.

in the second half of the afternoon, could be in for evening sunshine.

:45:50.:45:54.

And some sunshine and showers across central and northern Scotland, some

:45:55.:45:59.

of the driest conditions in the north-east, around Aberdeenshire.

:46:00.:46:03.

North-west England it gets down through the afternoon in the north

:46:04.:46:06.

and west of Wales. Some outbreaks of rain most persistent on the hills.

:46:07.:46:12.

Quite breezy. To the south and east of Wales, largely dry. South of

:46:13.:46:15.

England, the Midlands and East Anglia will see breaks in the cloud.

:46:16.:46:21.

It will a touch warmer than yesterday. Breeze pushing the rain

:46:22.:46:24.

south, fragmented, not all the gardens will get a welcome drop of

:46:25.:46:28.

rain across the South. That rain will clear most into the morning.

:46:29.:46:33.

Clearing skies and the Midlands North, chilly start to the Saturday,

:46:34.:46:37.

ever to frost in rural areas. Showers continue through the night

:46:38.:46:41.

in Scotland. On Saturday, more will see sunshine and have a dry day. The

:46:42.:46:46.

bulk of the country will have a dry day, only one or two showers dotted

:46:47.:46:52.

around. Most likely north and west of Scotland, particularly over

:46:53.:46:55.

higher ground. Cool breeze tomorrow, you will notice in the cloudy

:46:56.:47:00.

moments. Nice in the sun tribe at a distinct chill in the air. Even with

:47:01.:47:03.

the sunshine in the valleys making it feel like spring, get yourself

:47:04.:47:09.

the mountains and there are force winds with subzero temperatures, it

:47:10.:47:12.

will lead to a severe wind chill. On Scottish mountains tomorrow, there

:47:13.:47:18.

could be snow. After sunshine on Saturday, cloudy weather on Sunday.

:47:19.:47:23.

Sunshine towards the south west and northern England and Scotland but in

:47:24.:47:27.

between, the cloud and outbreaks of rain. Northern Ireland, southern

:47:28.:47:31.

parts of England, Wales and eventually towards East Anglia and

:47:32.:47:33.

the south-east. Temperatures up on the face of it compared with

:47:34.:47:38.

Saturday. Cloudy, sunny, cloudy and back to sunny on Monday. Some

:47:39.:47:42.

showers in the east but the west, light winds and the best of the

:47:43.:47:44.

sunshine it should feel pleasant enough with the strengthening

:47:45.:47:50.

sunshine overhead. A bit of weather for everyone. Whatever your plans

:47:51.:47:51.

are, enjoy. Weather can't make its mind up. It

:47:52.:47:58.

can but it's Easter. A bit of weather for everyone, particularly

:47:59.:48:02.

if you like snow! Maybe you are staying in the UK over the next few

:48:03.:48:07.

days. How about going to Hull? You should, this is what we are

:48:08.:48:09.

recommending this morning. Hull is taking centre stage this

:48:10.:48:11.

year as it hosts a series of arts Just four months in to 2017,

:48:12.:48:14.

and people have already been flooding in to see what the city

:48:15.:48:18.

has to offer. Our Arts Correspondent Colin

:48:19.:48:21.

Paterson is there for us this I recognise those poppies, we've

:48:22.:48:28.

seen them somewhere before. Absolutely, the Tower of London in

:48:29.:48:32.

2014, they have now come to visit Hull as part of the city of culture

:48:33.:48:38.

celebrations. 100 days Hull has been city of culture, we thought it was

:48:39.:48:42.

time for BBC Breakfast to find out what has been going on and I ended

:48:43.:48:44.

up in some unusual places. The place would have

:48:45.:48:47.

smelt of carpet, overalls Hull, City of Culture,

:48:48.:48:49.

were even taxis are being And he'd raise us up by pumping

:48:50.:48:53.

a handle up and down. For the next three months,

:48:54.:48:57.

Wayne Jackson is performing his show, Now Then, about people's

:48:58.:48:59.

memories of Hull to an audience of And the show is only 20 minutes,

:49:00.:49:02.

so I'm doing it, kind It's combining my

:49:03.:49:09.

son's work and mine. Had you ever done

:49:10.:49:20.

anything arty before? And venues have been popping

:49:21.:49:26.

up all over the city. This week's big opening, Flood,

:49:27.:49:32.

a state-of-the-nation parable, is performed on a floating

:49:33.:49:34.

stage right in the middle These people in their flats

:49:35.:49:37.

have been looking down We've been chatting to them,

:49:38.:49:45.

we've been to local primary schools, to say hello, to teach them

:49:46.:49:48.

a song that in the play. We have a little boy called Jim,

:49:49.:49:51.

who comes by every day on his way back from school and says,

:49:52.:49:55.

"what are you doing?" And at that very moment,

:49:56.:49:57.

who should arrive but Jim Proudly sharing the title the crew

:49:58.:49:59.

have bestowed upon him. It's a small example of how people

:50:00.:50:07.

of all ages have been getting involved since Hull's year

:50:08.:50:17.

in the spotlight began on January Other highlights so far

:50:18.:50:19.

have included the visit of enormous sculpture,

:50:20.:50:25.

The Blade and the Humber Bridge being given a musical

:50:26.:50:28.

accompaniment by Opera North. It's just been a magical

:50:29.:50:34.

start to the year. We've seen hundreds of thousands

:50:35.:50:36.

of residents getting involved, but also, people coming

:50:37.:50:38.

from all over to experience Hull And those who have lived in Hull

:50:39.:50:40.

all their lives have It's just framed everything up,

:50:41.:50:44.

everything up, it's lovely. It's a pleasure, actually,

:50:45.:50:48.

to walk around town. And there's still eight

:50:49.:50:50.

and a half months to go. And one of the big theatrical

:50:51.:51:03.

productions which will be opening on the 4th of May is Richard third at

:51:04.:51:09.

the Hull trunk Theatre starring Matt Frazer, probably best known for

:51:10.:51:13.

American hurry Storer and directed by Barry Rutter. Playing the most

:51:14.:51:17.

famous disabled villain in possibly the whole of drama, how important

:51:18.:51:24.

for you? Hugely important for me on many levels. Mostly, what an honour

:51:25.:51:28.

to play one of the great roles in drama. Let alone be what I think,

:51:29.:51:33.

apart from Catherine hunter who played previously, the first

:51:34.:51:37.

disabled actor in Britain to play the most disabled villain in drama.

:51:38.:51:42.

It's beyond my imagination. Such an honour. I'm so thrilled and proud to

:51:43.:51:47.

be cast in the role and I hope to do the evil genius proud. Why do you

:51:48.:51:52.

think it's been done so seldom by a disabled actor? I honestly don't

:51:53.:51:56.

know. I'm flummoxed, I thought about it a lot, obviously and I have no

:51:57.:52:00.

idea. All I will concentrate on is trying to honour the fact that I'm

:52:01.:52:03.

going to be the first person to do it and do it to the best of my

:52:04.:52:07.

ability. The man who cost do is Barry Rutter. I saw Richard III last

:52:08.:52:12.

year, Ray Fiennes went for the limp and the hunchback, why did you go

:52:13.:52:17.

for a disabled actor? I didn't. I didn't go for anyone with a

:52:18.:52:21.

disability, Matt was simply a list of actors that I saw. I liked what

:52:22.:52:26.

he did with the text, I cast him to speak the play first. And he brings

:52:27.:52:31.

his own deformity with it and we both said it would be an insult to

:52:32.:52:36.

the actor and the man, particularly, to put any other appendages of

:52:37.:52:42.

disability on him. So he is what he is. And he brings that to the role.

:52:43.:52:46.

Briefly, you set up Northern broadsides 25 years ago in the city

:52:47.:52:51.

of Hull where you were born and grew up, try and sum up the change you

:52:52.:52:57.

have seen this year. It's wonderful. The sense of people in bracing

:52:58.:53:01.

what's happening in the festivities of the whole year has been a

:53:02.:53:07.

revelation to me. They are embracing it with great, great heart and

:53:08.:53:12.

creativity. Thank you. Before we go, quick word with Kofi smiles, the BBC

:53:13.:53:17.

face of Hull 2017, you have a special programme four people who

:53:18.:53:22.

want to catch up with what has gone on. You can hear from John Grant,

:53:23.:53:26.

the American singer songwriter who is bringing his North Atlantic flux

:53:27.:53:30.

at the end of April. You can hear from the Pioneer Baba trench, born

:53:31.:53:34.

in Hull at the world's first women's boxing champion. A nice preview

:53:35.:53:39.

about how Opera North managed to turn the Humber Bridge into a

:53:40.:53:43.

musical instrument. It is a thing of beauty. I had a sneak peek of the

:53:44.:53:48.

show and it will be great. It will be on BBC news at 12:30pm and

:53:49.:53:52.

8:30pm. We will have to go for a party but breakfast so I can fill

:53:53.:53:55.

you in on the information after this. I will take you after that.

:53:56.:53:59.

12:30pm on the news channel to find out about what has been going on

:54:00.:54:04.

Hull. It keeps going right until the end of the year. Thank you. Much

:54:05.:54:09.

more from Colin over the next several months from Hull.

:54:10.:54:12.

Interesting hearing that. Musical theme.

:54:13.:54:16.

Music, with words written by Henry VIII's sixth wife,

:54:17.:54:18.

Katherine Parr, is to be performed for the first time in more than 470

:54:19.:54:21.

years after the piece was discovered completely by accident.

:54:22.:54:24.

The music and lyrics were found behind plasterwork

:54:25.:54:26.

during renovations of Oxford's Corpus Christi

:54:27.:54:27.

Today's performance is part of a concert by the Alamire choir.

:54:28.:54:34.

In a moment, we'll speak to a man who's spent months resurrecting

:54:35.:54:37.

the fragmented music, but first let's take a listen.

:54:38.:54:47.

The chap you just saw conducting is with us.

:54:48.:55:38.

Joining us now is David Skinner, the Conductor and Founder

:55:39.:55:40.

That music, there is something about that music, you can feel it in your

:55:41.:55:47.

feet, can't you? It resonates through the floor. It's music that

:55:48.:55:54.

really inspired the composers of the early early 20th century, Britain

:55:55.:55:59.

Fon Williams. It is no accident we call music of the 16th century the

:56:00.:56:03.

golden age of the church music. They are right at the centre. Do you

:56:04.:56:08.

really know for sure that Katherine Parr wrote those words? Absolutely,

:56:09.:56:13.

beyond any doubt whatsoever. I've spent the best part of two years

:56:14.:56:18.

researching the piece, reconstructing it, writing a full

:56:19.:56:21.

academic article, which was published by Oxford press, had a

:56:22.:56:24.

complete conference and got the thing together yesterday for the

:56:25.:56:30.

very first time. That performance you here was 15 minutes of

:56:31.:56:33.

rehearsal. Take us back, how the story worked out. A text, some

:56:34.:56:40.

paperwork discovered, talk us through the original discovery.

:56:41.:56:44.

Essentially, in 1978 Corpus Christi were undergoing some renovation work

:56:45.:56:48.

in one of their rooms. They uncovered these fragments of 16th

:56:49.:56:52.

century music. That is the bit we can see. That's it. It looks

:56:53.:56:56.

enormous but the original size is about the size of your hand, it's

:56:57.:56:59.

very small. They start inspecting this. The music was identified

:57:00.:57:06.

immediately as being from Thomas Tallis. His grandest peas, six apart

:57:07.:57:13.

piece which was a great tribute to the Virgin Mary. Originally Latin

:57:14.:57:17.

words, probably composed in the early 1540s. It was this piece that

:57:18.:57:21.

when Tallis left Canterbury and joined the Chapel Royal at around

:57:22.:57:25.

1543, the same time that Katherine Parr married Henry III. They were

:57:26.:57:35.

working together in Henry's was against Scotland and France.

:57:36.:57:41.

Katherine Is a warlike text, the night 's arm against enemies. Some

:57:42.:57:45.

of the fragments you here, the text was stand-up overlord and punish

:57:46.:57:47.

these naughty people. She was the lyricist. -- stand-up, over, Lord.

:57:48.:57:57.

It was a fairy li reasoned early work, they replace them with

:57:58.:58:03.

Katherine 's. Was she supposed to be a nursemaid, didn't she just look

:58:04.:58:06.

after him? That is what the history books tell you. She is known as

:58:07.:58:10.

being quite a fine scholar. She published her own books. In 1544,

:58:11.:58:15.

she published her first Psalms, prayers. It was meant as a companion

:58:16.:58:20.

piece to Archbishop Cranmer's exhortation under branding litany.

:58:21.:58:25.

Henry VIII always tended to call these processional litanies so that

:58:26.:58:29.

he could stir the people in prayer. Traditionally, these were always in

:58:30.:58:32.

Latin, so this is the first time they tried doing this project in

:58:33.:58:40.

English. Parr it is very central to it with Tallis. Thank you for

:58:41.:58:43.

explaining it to us. Interesting. An incredible find.

:58:44.:58:48.

I'll be back tomorrow with Christian tomorrow from 6am.

:58:49.:58:52.

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